George Washington kept hounds with names like Sweetlips, Tipsy, Drunkard, and Vulcan, bred them with the patient obsession of a man building something permanent, and is credited by the American Kennel Club with helping... Read More →
In January 1924, a state historian named Doane Robinson stood before the Black and Yellow Trail Association, a highway-booster group, and proposed carving giant figures into the Black Hills. He was thinking of tourists... Read More →
For most of American history, presidents did not have Secret Service code names. They didn’t need them. There was no radio chatter to encrypt, no transcontinental motorcade calls to obscure, no telephone network through... Read More →
The office of the American presidency was invented on the fly. In 1787, the founders sat in Philadelphia arguing about whether the executive should be a single person or a committee of three. They... Read More →
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