Thomas Pearson repelled American forces, driving Canada toward nationhood.

Middle schoolers comb through diaries, trek over battlefields, and relive history with cameras in hand.

What a souvenir statue tells us about his writing.

U-boats off the coast of Virginia.

The naughty nineteenth-century circus.

Pennsylvania soldiers dodging the Civil War.

Vietnam War through the eyes of a South Dakota artist.

Memphis preacher's message could be found in his photographs.

In Baltimore, the museum of industry charms.

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points: Raising expectations of emerging national leaders.

On the odd and brainy Claiborne Pell

Sara Ogger looks out her window and beyond the city.

Oberlin, Ohio, becomes unlikely point of convergence in this issue.