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The Happy Goodman family was the royalty of southern gospel, a touring and recording empire built on the promise of eternal joy. Howard, Sam, and Rusty Goodman were the patriarchs from Alabama. Howard anchored the group with his business sense and piano playing, Sam charmed crowds as the master of ceremonies, and Rusty wrote songs … Read more

Jag är Adelaide, trettioett år gammal, och i åtta månader har jag ägt en lodycka vid en sjö i Adirondacks värd sju miljoner dollar. Hela min familj trodde att den inte fanns. Jag köpte den tyst våren efter att mitt företag förvärvats, och jag renoverade den i månader med exakt ett syfte i åtanke: att … Read more

The Dodge roadster rolled through the cottonwood shadows on the evening of July 20, 1923, ten kilometers outside Parral, Chihuahua. Pancho Villa was behind the wheel, though he was not the driver. His . 45-caliber pistol lay on the seat beside him, not in his hand. He was forty-five years old, retired from a revolution … Read more

Celý život jsem se cítila ve stínu své mladší sestry. Rodiče považovali Karolínu za mimořádně nadanou a dávali mi najevo, že jedno úspěšné dítě jim stačí. Já byla v jejich očích neúspěch, který je jen zatěžuje. Když mi bylo patnáct, položili mi nekompromisní podmínku. Pokud bych měsíčně přispívala na nájem pětadvacet tisíc korun, možná by … Read more

Two documents from 1876 expose the fatal errors that doomed George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry. The events of June 25, 1876, are permanently etched in American history, when Custer’s regiment confronted a united force of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho fighters at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The engagement ended in a disastrous defeat for … Read more

Early in the war, a Union soldier in the upper South thought he had found the perfect solution to a cold night: a single wooden fence rail from a nearby farm. Dry, portable, easy to burn. He pried it loose, carried it back to camp, and lit a fire. His commanding officer found out and … Read more

The sun burned down on the rolling hills beside the Little Bighorn River in late June 1876, turning the air thick with dust and gunpowder. For more than 150 years, the public has been told a clean, almost romantic version of what happened there: George Armstrong Custer, the golden-haired boy general, standing firm on a … Read more

In the summer of 1987, social worker Margaret Brennan received an anonymous call that would lead her deep into the mountains of eastern Kentucky. A trembling voice spoke of children who had never seen a school, of adults who could barely speak, of a family living in complete isolation since the 1890s. Before Margaret could … Read more

By the end of the Second World War, the Atlantic had swallowed nearly 34,000 of the roughly 40,000 men who served aboard Germany’s U-boats. Drowned, crushed, burned, or left adrift in silent water, they became the costliest loss of any branch of the German military. The submarine force that once terrorized Allied shipping had turned … Read more

On the afternoon of July 1, 1863, Confederate infantry drove the Union Army of the Potomac through the streets of Gettysburg in triumph. The retreating Federals fled south to a chain of high ground centered on Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, ground that lay open and largely unoccupied as dusk settled. Robert E. Lee, commanding … Read more