Declaring His Genius
Oscar Wilde in North America »

Ambrose Bierce P
Alone in Bad Company »

The Long Pursuit
Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America »

The Better Angel P
Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, or the North's greater industrial might. This text of... »

Fraud of the Century
Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 »

Lighting Out for the Territory
How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain. »