I am at loss for the proper word to use to describe what television has done with Haley’s book Roots. “Enhance” will not do, nor is “heightened” sufficient. There is no word that is adequate.
The most dramatic and best-known story of railroading in the United States is the connecting of the Atlantic and the Pacific by railroad in 1869, tying of the oceans together by rail across the heart of the United States
Abraham Lincoln: Republican candidate for President of the United States – 1860 Description from the US Library of Congress: “A print for a large campaign
Steel fashion plate for January 1859 Dinner dress of peach blossom silk; the skirt double, and trimmed by a cordon of passementerie, mixed black
Expert puts portraits of Abraham Lincoln in correct order Nearly all the 100 or so photographs taken of Lincoln during his lifetime have been known
On the sudden appearance of groups of allied species in the lowest known fossiliferous strata Excerpted from “On the Origin of Species,” by Charles Darwin,
Death of Colonel Samuel Colt Col. Samuel Colt, the well-known inventor of improvements in firearms, died in Hartford, Conn., Thursday morning [January 10, 1862], at
The distance of the sun increasing A German publication has given the calculation to prove that the distance between the earth and the sun is
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
Tour the ultimate mid-century modern house: The Scholz Mark 58 Home of the Year 
Women: Do you have the ideal figure? Here’s what ‘they’ thought in 1950 
Say, Say, Oh Playmate: We traced the story of this old song and hand clapping game, and have the lyrics 
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