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As much an American success story as a story about America itself, the saga of Fred Harvey and the Harvey Houses is a captivating tale of entrepre...

The World’s Fairs that took place in the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s gave hope to millions and offered visions of futur...

On June 8, 1966, a massive EF-5 tornado cut a 22-mile swath across eastern Kansas before smashing through Topeka. Author Bonar Me...

John Curatola of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the milita...

Award-winning author Leo Damrosch discusses his new biography, Tocqueville’s Discovery of America....

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a brief suborbital mission that marked the first manned launch of Project M...

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican victory over the French invaders at the Battle of Puebla in1862. Now one of the most popula...

On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht, sailed into the waters of Long Island Sound, and disappeared. What happened was...

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One of the prime movers of the neighborhood revivals of New York’s Soho and Miami’s South Beach, Tony Goldman shares his experiences...