“The Proposition is Peace”Edmund Burke and America Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop Read More
Arthur Ashe Ashe was diffident about his athletic fame. He said, “I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s... Read More
Hubert Humphrey: Happy Warrior A liberal icon who commanded affection and respect, but whose career was often marked by embarrassment and defeat. Read More
Fiorello La Guardia: The Little Flower For a dozen years, the diminutive dynamo, ruled New York City as a progressive Republican mayor. Read More
Daniel Boone:“Back-Woodsman of Kentucky” Few figures in American history are more enshrouded by myth and legend than Daniel Boone, the famous pioneer and woodsman. Read More
Mary McLeod Bethune A civil rights activist and educator whose parents had been slaves. As co-founder of the United Negro College Fund, she... Read More
“Bound to be True”:Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge The U.S. needed a pleasant distraction in 1865. It received one in the unlikely form of a children’s novel. Read More
Rachel Carson: Not So Silent "Silent Spring" has become a kind of biblical text for the environmental movement. Read More
Harry Hopkins: Chief Apostle of the New Deal Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop Read More
