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On March 15, 1781, American forces inflicted heavy losses on the British Army at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. The redcoats had seemed invincible only a few months before.

100 Days That Shook the World

The all-but-forgotten story of the unlikely hero who ensured victory in the American Revolution
July 2007 | By John Ferling

John Blake White

The Swamp Fox

Elusive and crafty, Francis Marion outwitted British troops during the American Revolution
July 01, 2007 | By Amy Crawford

Trailed by reporters, Jimmy Carter launched his antimalaria initiative in the small community of Afeta. Some 50 million Ethiopians (Kemeru Gessese washes clothes in a river) live in regions where the disease is rampant.

The Ethiopia Campaign

After fighting neglected diseases in Africa for a quarter century, former president Jimmy Carter takes on one of the continent's biggest killers malaria
June 2007 | By Robert M. Poole

"Getting to the Pacific by ship, without having to go over land, was the biggest challenge of that period," says Helen Nadar. "[Magellan

The Man Who Sailed the World

Ferdinand Magellan's global journey gave him fame, but took his life
June 01, 2007 | By Haley Crum

Egyptian queen Cleopatra

Who Was Cleopatra?

Mythology, propaganda, Liz Taylor and the real Queen of the Nile
April 01, 2007 | By Amy Crawford

Excluded from the press pool, photographer Bert Hardy borrowed a dinner jacket and sneaked into the Paris Opera to snap this photo of Queen Elizabeth II.

Operatic Entrance

As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp
March 2007 | By David J. Marcou

Gen. George H. Thomas

Catching Up With "Old Slow Trot"

Stubborn and deliberate, General George Henry Thomas was one of the Union's most brilliant strategists. So why was he cheated by history?
March 2007 | By Ernest B. Furgurson

The Forgotten General

Historians' perspectives on George H. Thomas
March 2007 | By Ernest B. Furgurson

The Pardon

President Gerald R. Ford's priority was to unite a divided nation. The decision that defined his term proved how difficult that would be
February 2007 | By Barry Werth

By touching the spinning bowls with wet fingers, Ben Franklin produced chords and complex melodies.

Second Time Around

Invented by Ben Franklin but lost to history, the glass harmonica has been resurrected by modern musicians
February 01, 2007 | By Catherine Clarke Fox

The frivolous 14-year-old Austrian princess who came to France to marry the future king, Louis XVI, developed strength and character over the years.

Marie Antoinette

The teenage queen, now the subject of a new movie, was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, "Let them eat cake")
November 2006 | By Richard Covington

New Faces of 1946

An unpopular president. A war-weary people. In the midterm elections of 60 years ago, voters took aim at incumbents
November 2006 | By William E. Leuchtenburg

Jean-Baptiste Le Paon painted this portrait of George Washington in 1779.

The Spirit of George Washington

After two centuries, Mount Vernon's whiskey distillery returns
November 01, 2006 | By Cate Lineberry

George Washington

Discovering George Washington

Little-known facts about the nation's first president
November 01, 2006 | By Cate Lineberry

Abraham Lincoln

Inventive Abe

In 1849, a future president patented an ingenious addition to transportation technology.
October 2006 | By Owen Edwards

Al Gore Discusses "An Inconvenient Truth"

Environmentalist Al Gore talks about his new movie.
July 01, 2006 | By Amy Crawford

36 Craven Street, the house where Ben Franklin lived from 1757 to 1775

Ben Franklin Slept Here

The ingenious founding father's only surviving residence, in London, is reborn as a museum
March 2006 | By Simon Worrall

Reading of Emancipation Proclamation

"My Whole Soul Is In It"

As his army faltered and his cabinet bickered, Abraham Lincoln determined that "we must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued." In 1862, he finally got his chance
January 2006 | By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lewis and Clark: The Journey Ends

The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark expedition
December 2005 | By Smithsonian magazine

Bill Gates (in 2003) has "far surpassed anything I accomplished in engineering and business," says Jimmy Carter, now a fellow philanthropist.

35 Who Made a Difference: Bill Gates

The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet
November 2005 | By Jimmy Carter


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