Stories such as Clara and the Soldier, a tale of one nurse doing all she can on a Civil War battlefield, make this an exciting issue.
You will also see a poster from 1839 warning Philadelphians of the arrival of a dangerous new “locomotive rail road”; find out which First Lady could not find the capital city; witness a debate between a “robber baron” industrialist and a “muckraker” journalist; discover what Magellan’s voyage through the straits was like; and get the recipe for a delicious gruel.
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