“Little Colonel Funston”That’s what the newspapers called him, and he spent an increasingly reckless career trying to edit out the adjective. But even winning a war single-handed didn’t do it. by Mark C. Carnes
The Gospel According to EveElizabeth Cady Stanton’s sardonic protofeminist commentary on the Bible cost her the leadership of the suffragist movement. by Cullen Murphy
Terror BoundThe monarch of all amusement devices is beautiful to look at and exhilarating to ride. Even so, roller coasters nearly died out in America before recent events brought them surging back. by David Lindsay
The American CenturyThe English journalist Harold Evans has spent more than a decade preparing a book on this country’s role in the most eventful hundred years ever. He liked what he found enough to become an American himself. An Interview by Kevin Baker
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