American History Tellers

Albright recorded Mather's words in his memoir, Creating the National Park Service.

In 1932, Wright published the first report of his findings, Fauna of the National Parks of the United States.

But Forest and Stream magazine, the country's premier publication for outdoorsmen, gave the book a mixed review.

We are sorry to see that a number of hunting myths are given as fact, but it was after all scarcely to be expected that with the author's limited experience, he could sift the wheat from the chaff and distinguish the true from the false.

Burroughs wrote about it in his book, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt.

Burroughs noted that Roosevelt was evidently hungry for the wild and the aboriginal.

Yosemite and Mariposa Grove, a preliminary report.

Olmsted argued that untouched landscapes were capable of providing people of any age with refreshing rest and reinvigoration.

When it came time for Hutchings to write his own book, In the Heart of the Sierras, he would slight Muir by never referring to him by name.

Inspired by the hit podcast, American History Tellers, Wondery and William Morrow present the new book, The Hidden History of the White House.

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Russell is also the author of Amsterdam, a history of the world's most liberal city and the island at the center of the world, the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the founding colony that shaped America.

My first book was called Gospel Truth, and it was about the search for the historical Jesus.

One French novel, Thrse et Philosophe, or Therese the Philosopher, described a young woman's simultaneous intellectual and sexual awakenings.

The book was a huge hit in the mid-1700s.

A vindication of the rights of women appeared in England about the same time as Margaret Coughlin's memoir was published.

Truth must be common to all, she had written. Women must be educated.

Inspired by the hit podcast, American History Tellers, Wondery and William Morrow present the new book, The Hidden History of the White House.

Order The Hidden History of the White House now in hardcover or digital edition, wherever you get your books.

For more than two centuries, the White House has been the stage for some of the most dramatic scenes in American history. Inspired by the hit podcast, American History Tellers, Wondery and William Morrow present the new book, The Hidden History of the White House.

Then in 1949, artist Chesley Bonestell released a book called The Conquest of Space. This collection of painted illustrations included lifelike depictions of the moon and other planets up close.

The public was enthralled. Other planets began to seem not just like an abstract idea, but places Americans might actually go one day.

Inspired by the hit podcast, American History Tellers, Wondery and William Morrow present the new book, The Hidden History of the White House.

Order The Hidden History of the White House now in hardcover or digital edition wherever you get your books.

Then in 1949, artist Chesley Bonestell released a book called The Conquest of Space. This collection of painted illustrations included lifelike depictions of the moon and other planets up close.

The public was enthralled. Other planets began to seem not just like an abstract idea, but places Americans might actually go one day.

You sigh and pull out your copy of Conquest of Space. It usually delights you, but tonight it's not quite the same.

I've written a number of books, including Where Good Ideas Come From and How We Got to Now, about this really fascinating question of technologies or scientific breakthroughs that changed the world, kind of trying to dive in and figure out how they happen.

He's got a copy of the same book you do back in the wagon, Lansford Hastings' Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California.

Don't tell me you're reading that frual thing.

Because the man's an idiot or a liar. Hastings says his cutoff is shorter, takes you right into California instead of up north to Oregon. Hastings hasn't even seen most of that trail.

James Klyman was right. Haysing's had no idea what he was talking about. His friend James Reed was one of the leaders of the infamous Donner Party. He ignored Klyman's advice to stick to the main California trail. Instead, following Haysing's guidebook, the party set out to shave off time by crossing the brutal desert to the west of the Great Salt Lake.

For a deeper understanding of the interplay between beer, taxation and the history of Repeal, *Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Brew* by Maureen Ogle is essential reading.