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  1. How to Get Elected

    By Bernard A. Wei…, August 1964, Volume 15, Issue 5

    The American system of choosing a President has not worked out badly, far as it may be from the Founding Fathers’ vision of a natural aristocracy More >>>

  2. He Paints With Lakes And Wooded Slopes…

    By John Stuart Martin, October 1964, Volume 15, Issue 6

    Frederick Law Olmsted founded a new artistic profession in America. Today he is scarcely known by the millions who use and enjoy his works More >>>

  3. Reading, Writing, And History

    By Bruce Catton, June 1964, Volume 15, Issue 4

    William Ashley was largely responsible for the development of that most glittering of the West’s romantic figures, the mountain man—the free trapper who explored the western wilderness at imminent peril of his life. More >>>

  4. Sergt. Bates March

    By Milton Lomask, October 1965, Volume 16, Issue 6

    Carrying the Stars & Stripes unfurled, from Vicksburg to Washington, and Gretna Green to London More >>>

  5. Johnstown: “Run For Your Lives!”

    By David McCullough, September 2022, Volume 67, Issue 4

    In the hills above Johnstown, the old South Fork dam had failed. Down the Little Conemaugh came the torrent, sweeping away everything in its path. More >>>

  6. The Widow Washington

    By Martha Saxton, Fall 2020 George Washington Prize, Volume 65, Issue 8

    Denigrated as "crude," "illiterate," "self-centered," and "slovenly," Mary Washington had the singular destiny to have a son whose potential for being idealized seems to have been even greater than that for motherhood. More >>>

  7. A Zip Through History

    By Gerald Carson, October 1974, Volume 25, Issue 6

    The U.S. Post Office, 1775-1974 More >>>

  8. Martyr For A Free Press

    By Alvin Harlow, October 1955, Volume 6, Issue 6

    Matthew Lyon did not like John Adams, and insisted on his right to say so. He spent months in jail but he could not be silenced. More >>>

  9. Run For Your Lives!

    By David McCullough, June 1966, Volume 17, Issue 4

    In the hills above Johnstown, the old South Fork dam had failed. Down the Little Conemaugh came the torrent, sweeping away everything in its path More >>>

  10. The Founding Wizard

    By John Steele Gordon, July/august 1990, Volume 41, Issue 5

    Two hundred years ago the United States was a weakling republic prostrate beneath a ruinous national debt. Then Alexander Hamilton worked the miracle of fiscal imagination that made America a healthy young economic giant. How did he do it? More >>>

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