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Paul Revere: Three Riders and the Midnight That...
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in 1861, eighty-six years after the fact. The poem is historic....
Paul Revere: Three Riders and the Midnight That...
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in 1861, eighty-six years after the fact. The poem is historic....
Nathan Hale: The Spy Who Left No Intelligence
He is remembered as America's first great spy. As a young schoolteacher, he volunteered to go behind British lines, was captured, and faced the gallows with the famous words: “I...
Nathan Hale: The Spy Who Left No Intelligence
He is remembered as America's first great spy. As a young schoolteacher, he volunteered to go behind British lines, was captured, and faced the gallows with the famous words: “I...
John Adams: The Indispensable Man Nobody Remembers
History has a habit of forgetting the people who made the famous people possible. John Adams understood this about himself. “The history of our Revolution,” he bitterly wrote in 1790,...
John Adams: The Indispensable Man Nobody Remembers
History has a habit of forgetting the people who made the famous people possible. John Adams understood this about himself. “The history of our Revolution,” he bitterly wrote in 1790,...
Thomas Jefferson: The Reluctant Revolutionary W...
Kids in school learn that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. What they are rarely told is how close we came to having someone else write it, and how...
Thomas Jefferson: The Reluctant Revolutionary W...
Kids in school learn that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. What they are rarely told is how close we came to having someone else write it, and how...
George Washington: The General Who Could Have B...
You know him from the dollar bill. You know him from the portraits — the focused face, the powdered hair, and the unmistakable dignity. You know him as the Father...
George Washington: The General Who Could Have B...
You know him from the dollar bill. You know him from the portraits — the focused face, the powdered hair, and the unmistakable dignity. You know him as the Father...
Benjamin Franklin: The Diplomat Who Saved the R...
By 1776, Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old, which was ancient for that era and even more ancient for any era of wilderness diplomacy. He had physical limitations like gout...
Benjamin Franklin: The Diplomat Who Saved the R...
By 1776, Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old, which was ancient for that era and even more ancient for any era of wilderness diplomacy. He had physical limitations like gout...