America's oldest continuously published periodical, beloved by generations for being "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," celebrates its unique history with more readers than ever before!
Contains the text of each of the twenty-six issues of Poor Richard's almanac ... For the most part, meteorological and astonomical material has been omitted, as well as a few factual articles ...
Banneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.
Provides information such as military commander profiles, the war's armaments and battlefronts, timelines, oral histories, and the political, social, and economic factors that influenced the conflict.