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In a country constituted of immigrants and the progeny of immigrants, immigration is surprisingly thorny issue in America. It is often said…

Crime of the century? The words conjure up thoughts of a single shocking offense, a crime so appalling it stands out above…

When I first learned of the ghost towns of New Jersey, I could hardly believe it. How could a state with more…

Andrew Jackson was a tough customer. At the age of fourteen, while acting as a courier for the American forces in the…

In early autumn of 1903, something bizarre and terrifying happened in the town of Van Meter, Iowa. People have been talking about…

There are innovations that, when we first experience them, are so striking, so clearly a terrific idea, that we cannot conceive of…

Eighty-nine-year-old Marjorie Congdon has been called both a sociopath and a psychopath. The terms are not interchangeable. Sociopaths have a conscience, but…

Traveling west from the plains of North Dakota something interesting happens as you approach Billings. The land begins to break up. The…

The story goes like this. Two young enlisted men in their early twenties were tasked with operating a nuclear reactor in the…

Skiing came to Sun Valley—as it came to all of us—by a roundabout manner. Having existed in Norway for centuries as a…