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Digging for Jefferson’s Lost Courthouse
Archaeologists in Virginia found the footprint of a red brick building lost in the mid-19th century
A century and a half ago, Britain’s Roger Fenton pioneered the art of war photography
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When Major Leaguer Eddie Grant Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
The Harvard-trained lawyer and professional baseball player Eddie Grant volunteered to serve in World War I. He fought as he’d played: selflessly
What if Lincoln had lost, or if Theodore Roosevelt had won? How did Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan emerge to lead a dispirited nation?
Tolstoy Does “Oprah”
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“Your Show of Shows,” starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, pioneered madcap TV humor in the 1950s
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They fled terror in Laos after secretly aiding American forces in the Vietnam War. Now 200,000 Hmong prosper-and struggle-in the United States
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Francis Scott Key, the Reluctant Patriot
The Washington lawyer was an unlikely candidate to write the national anthem; he was against America’s entry into the War of 1812 from the outset
The new National Museum of the American Indian is a proud expression of Native American beliefs
Before the American Revolution, no Thoroughbred did more for racing’s growing popularity than a plucky mare named Selima
Seven hundred years ago, William Tell shot an arrow through an apple on his son’s head and launched the struggle for Swiss independence. Or did he?
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No Bob Costas? Why the Ancient Olympics Were No Fun to Watch
Spectators braved all manner of discomfort—from oppressive heat to incessant badgering by vendors—to witness ancient Greece’s ultimate pagan festival
Celebrating a magazine’s good fortuneand a nation’s
An ancient Greek wrote the book on biography then and now
While most members of Congress sought a negotiated settlement with England, independence advocates bided their time
An exhibition of ancient Maya art points up the opulence and violence of the great Mesoamerican civilization
Secrets of the Maya: Deciphering Tikal
After decades of intense research, the ancient ruins of Mexico and Central America are yielding new insights into the pre-Columbia culture
Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
A Rockefeller’s rules for raising responsible children
During a civil rights march in 1965, photographer Bruce Davidson left the highway to focus on a single Alabama sharecropper and her nine children
After the Revolutionary War, ships from a little Massachusetts seaport brought the new nation wares from China and the mysterious East
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