American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address (Stephen Puleo - WH) lantern and more human suffering undergone

and more human suffering undergone than ever before in a season

HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF ADAMS COUNTY

the pious hard-fighting Stonewall Jackson

Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in American history

but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history

American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address (Stephen Puleo - WH) lantern and more human suffering undergoneOn December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train