1958

(Congress debates acquiring Alaska, 1867)

A letter to a French friend

When American colonists sorely needed friends, a Dutch island governor risked political ruin by saluting the rebels’ flag

A restrospect of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial

It took a decade of effort, heart-breaking disappointments, and the largest ship afloat before Cyrus Field could lay a successful cable across the Atlantic

Congress agreed to join Britain in suppressing the brutal and cunning slave trade, but Southern influence hamstrung the Navy when it came to enforcing the law

An erratic genius and his sober-sided partner made their product a household necessity and built fortunes which their numerous progeny have spent in ways both beneficent and bizarre

The Jamestown founder is one of those early American heroes about whom historians are apt to lose their tempers

Gentle Sarah Hale, widowed at forty, created our first successful women’s magazine and popularized the Paris fashions she regarded with deep distrust

A Glorification of Southern Patriotism— Balanced by Depiction of Northern Cruelty