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Young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put…
Rip Van Winkle
Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are…
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
In that summer of 1861 the first wash of the wave of war broke upon…
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
A few years ago I asked one of my friends, a retired economist, to tell…
The Sot-Weed Factor
Oversexed burlesque novel of colonial Maryland.
Merchant Kings
2009 non-fiction popular history book by Stephen R. Bown, which discusses the age of “heroic…