POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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June 1976

13 years ago By admin

Volume

27

Issue

4

JAPANESE INTERPRETERS SAFEWAY THE BRANDED HAND SHORT HAUL ROCK OF AGES LUSITANIA MRS. MELVILLE AND MRS. MELVILLE

Stories published from "June 1976"

The Therapy of Distance

Authored by: Daniel J. Boorstin

The broad expanse of ocean that separated Plymouth from Mother England helped create a novel experiment in democracy that grew as the American colonies expanded.

When The New World Dazzled The Old

Authored by: John Maass

Fifty European nations came to America on her hundredth birthday—and, for the first time, took her seriously

The Great Flu Epidemic of 1918

Authored by: Joseph E. Persico

It became apparent that this influenza was a first-rate killer.

“A Representative of America”

Authored by: Arnold Whitridge

Vain, snobbish, distinctly upper-class in his libertine social habits, Gouverneur Morris nevertheless saw himself justifiably as "A Representative of America"

A Step Back In Time

Authored by: The Editors

A trip to the Ozarks in 1910 has left us a unique record of a people by-passed by progress

Steam Road To El Dorado

Authored by: David McCullough

Mile for mile, it cost more in dollars—and lives—than any railroad ever built

Cadet Edgar Allan Poe

Authored by: Tom Johnson

The young poet became a legendary plebe in the few painful months he spent at West Point