Reading, Writing And History

December 2024

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Out of the National Attic The New Picture Books The Triumph of Right Leader of Lincoln?

Stories published from "February 1956"

Authored by: The Editors

a communication

After a century and a half of misadventure, the Constellation (if she is still the Constellation ) returns home

Personal friendships were important when T.R. was President. Ultimately, they had great effect on America’s foreign policies.

Fort Stanwix was doomed—until the Iroquois heard the ravings of Hon Yost Schuyler

Authored by: Bruce Catton

There have been few more desperate fights than the one in which John B. Hood vainly tried to block the invasion of the South

The Albany Plan of Union might have made the Revolution unnecessary

How Cape Hatteras earned its evil notoriety as graveyard
of the Atlantic—and how it looked to a speculative novelist on tour

Authored by: Mary Noel

This art form dismayed the moralist, delighted small boys, and somehow put its own stamp on the American legend

A noble portrait was grotesque, until the shadows were changed

Two slick miners fooled Tiffanys and Rothschilds until a geologist found the fake “mountain of gems”