The Bookseller’s Noble Train
A 25-year-old bookseller hauled 60 tons of cannon 300 miles through a New England winter, and drove the British out of Boston.
The Night Bermuda’s Powder Disappeared
Washington had nine rounds a man. Then a hundred barrels of powder vanished from a Bermuda magazine in the night.
Before He Was “Boss”
Before the Tweed Ring, there was a chair maker’s son, a volunteer fire company and a painted tiger.
Taming Hell Gate
How the Army spent years tunneling under the East River’s deadliest reefs, then blew them sky-high.