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In November 1852, newspapers in Pennsylvania gave over 650 words to assailing the flaws of the New Englander. In a wide-ranging screed...
In July of 1911, Hiram Bingham raced to climb to the top of South America’s tallest mountain before a 60-year-old schoolteacher named...
In the beginning years of the 20th century, the tiny village of Wells River, Vt., was invaded annually by hordes of fat...
The story of the Duchess of Dix Island begins with a bad investment. In 1839 Horace Beals became a partner in the...
In the fall of 1909, a big-game hunter in Africa perused a list of books that would become the Harvard Classics and...