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Karolyn Ide

October/november 1985

13 years ago By admin

Volume

36

Issue

6

1835 One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago 1860 One Hundred and Fifty-five Years Ago 1935 Fifty Years Ago

Stories published from "October/november 1985"

The Rise Of The Supermarket

Authored by: Tevere Macfadyen

It didn’t just change the way we buy our groceries. It changed the way we live our lives.

Boosting The West

Authored by: The Editors

The Wyoming photographer Joseph Stimson proudly portrayed his region in the years when it was emerging from rude frontier beginnings

Sinclair Lewis Got It Exactly Right

Authored by: Alfred Kazin

He re-created with perfect pitch every tone of voice, every creak and rattle of an America that was disintegrating even as it gave birth to the country we inhabit today

Four Months On The Front Line

Authored by: Nikolai Stevenson

A former Marine recalls the grim defense of Guadalcanal in 1942

FDR And The Kingfish

Authored by: William E. Leuchtenburg

A brilliant demagogue named Huey Long was scrambling for the Presidency when an assassin’s bullets cut him down just fifty years ago

“We Get the Technology We Deserve”

Authored by: Hal Bowser

A leader in the emerging field of technological history speaks about the inventors who made our modern world and tells why it is vital for us to know not only what they did, but how they thought

Master Of Sensuos Line

Authored by: Sandra Leff

John White Alexander began his career as an office boy at Harper’s Weekly and rose to be a leading painter of his generation, especially of its women

Knowledge Beyond Numbers

Authored by: Elting E. Morison

At a time when our civilization is trying to organize itself on scientific principles of mathematical probabilities, statistical modeling, and the like, is traditional narrative history of any real use? Yes, says a distinguished practitioner of the discipline; it can always help us. It might even save us.

Get Rich Slow

Authored by: The Editors

In the Yukon with G. C. Hazelet

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