Reading, Writing And History

November 2024

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The Civil War: the Truth and the Legend Floating Palaces Too Many Indians Camp Meeting Days

Stories published from " August 1955 "

Authored by: Ruth Painter Randall

New light on the tragic case of a President’s widow who saw her own son as a hated enemy

Authored by: The Editors

Newspaper ads from occupied New York illumine Revolutionary War loyalties

Authored by: Louis Morton

Military science was very rigid in the 1600’s. It quickly changed when Americans began to fight Indians

Authored by: Bernard A. Weisberger

Calling millions to repentance, Moody and Sankey devised a new method of spreading the gospel

Authored by: The Editors

Never before printed, the headquarters record of the British conqueror of New York illuminates crucial events of the American Revolution.

Authored by: Victor W. Von Hagen

Some men see the beginnings. The conquistador who first saw the Mississippi also took the Inca highway to fabulous Cuzco.

Authored by: Daniel O’flaherty

Not until the Civil War was about over did the U.S. Navy manage to put a halt to the South’s imports

Authored by: William Brandon

The imagined liberty of Rousseau’s primitive individual was actually attained by the free trappers who helped America gain a continent

Authored by: Rudolph Marx, M.d.

Stalwart as he was, the general was often ill. A doctor studies his record and notes shortcomings in Eighteenth-Century medical care.

Authored by: Ruth B. Davidson

Distant lands supplied patriotic tableware to the new Republic