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Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a …
Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are …
In that summer of 1861 the first wash of the wave of war broke upon the shores of Missouri. Our state was invaded by the …
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A few years ago I asked one of my friends, a retired economist, to tell me about her favorite professor from college. She hesitated …
2009 non-fiction popular history book by Stephen R. Bown, which discusses the age of “heroic commerce” through biographical profiles of six of the leading “merchant …