MADE IN PHILADELPHIAArtfully composed still-life photographs from a rare 1871 album transform brushes, sponges, and stationery supplies into symbols of a proud, industrial society. by Kenneth Finkel
THE POWER OF HOMELY DETAILIn a career spanning seventy-five years, LeConte Stewart evokes the integrity and the moods of his native Utah. by Wallace Stegner
THE BATTLE FOR GRANT’S TOMBBuilding a mausoleum to the great general might seem a serenely melancholy task. Not at all. The bitter squabbles that surrounded the memorial set city against country and became a mirror of the forces straining turn-of-the-century America. by Neil Harris
ROANOKE LOSTFour hundred years ago the first English settlers reached America. What followed was a string of disasters ending with the complete disappearance of a colony. by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
THE SOUND OF SILENTSThe men and women who labored in the ghostly light of the great screen to make the music that accompanies silent movies were as much a part of the show as Lillian Gish or Douglas Fairbanks. by Paul F. Boiler, Jr.
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