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Preface: The following article is a snippet from the book "Men and Manners in America,"...
Paul Laurence Dunbar
A few years ago, when Mr. Thomas Nelson Page's first volume of dialect stories was...
Napoleon Bonaparte at Breakfast
Preface: The following is an article is a snippet from the book Memoirs of the...
The Daguerreotype: Periscopic Lens
This beautiful instrument, destined, ultimately, we believe, to be the companion of every man of...

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Daniel Shays

was an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer. Daniel was famous for being one of the...

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton