Fairchild Aviation’s visionary founder valued innovation above all else. Sherman Fairchild seemed born to […]
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An American Stork
The top gun in France’s squadron of aces in 1918 wasn’t a Frenchman. Escadrille […]
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Book Review: Inventing George Washington / America’s Founder, in Myth & Memory
Inventing George Washington: America’s Founder, in Myth & Memory By Edward G. Lengel; Harper […]
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Thomas Jefferson: Founding Foodie
The new French stove is installed. The dumbwaiters are operational. house-made cider, beer and French wine fill the cellar at Monticello in anticipation of Thomas Jefferson’s homecoming.
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Interview: Jill Lepore / endlessly curious about the Revolution
Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University. She has written […]
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We’ve Been Here Before: Our Forefathers Cheered Other Revolutions From a Safe Distance
America is a nation born in revolution, and our first reaction when other people […]
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Unsung Heroes: 10 Union Generals Who Won Without All the Headlines
There must be more historians of the Civil War than there were generals fighting […]
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Behind the Lines | The Relic Hunter
Shirl Herr’s “hidden-metal detector” paved the way for the development of mine detectors used […]
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CWT Today- April 2011
Stonewall Jackson House Goes to VMI The Stonewall Jackson House in Lexington, Virginia, where […]