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  1. The Third Day at Gettysburg

    By Frank Aretas Haskell, December 1957, Volume 9, Issue 1

    First lieutenant on Brigadier General John Gibbon’s staff, at Gettysburg; later colonel of the 36th Wisconsin; killed at Cold Harbor. More >>>

  2. Utopia By The Lake

    By Jeffrey Simpson, August 1972, Volume 23, Issue 5

    One summer evening in the mid1960’s there was a concert on the porch of an old hotel in western New York State. Gingerbread pillars towered three stories into the darkness above the conductor, and f More >>>

  3. Baroness On The Battlefield

    By Anonymous (not verified), December 1964, Volume 16, Issue 1

    Not all the Hessians taken prisoner at Saratoga were soldiers, nor were all of them men. There was also, with her three small daughers, More >>>

  4. “God, Please Get Us Out Of This”

    By Stephen Bower Young, April 1966, Volume 17, Issue 3

    A carefree Sunday lay ahead for one of the mess cooks on USS Oklahoma. His pockets jingled, and a pretty girl awaited him for a picnic on a warm, white beach. Minutes later he lay entombed at the bottom of Pearl Harbor More >>>

  5. “Ice Ahead!”

    By Ralph K. Andrist, August 1966, Volume 17, Issue 5

    One of his ships was rotten, his cold-weather gear was totally inadequate, and his officers resented him. But Lieutenant Wilkes had his orders—and off into the unknown Antarctic he sailed More >>>

  6. The Bonins—isles Of Contention

    By Gavan Daws, Februrary 1968, Volume 19, Issue 2

    Americans settled early on the tiny, strategic Pacific islands, and dominate them again today. But the Japanese want them back More >>>

  7. Pershing’s Island War

    By Thomas Fleming, August 1968, Volume 19, Issue 5

    Home-front antiwar sentiment soared as ever more troops were sent to fight a fierce guerilla enemy in the Philippine “Black Jack” was caught in the cross fire More >>>

  8. ¡Recuerda El Alamo!?

    By José Enrique D…, October 1975, Volume 26, Issue 6

    ∗Remember the AlamoThe patriotic story that most Americans call to mind when they remember the Alamo is largely mythology, and it is a mythology constructed on the northern side of the border. The f 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. Inventing The Commercial

    By Harry Matthei, May/june 1997, Volume 48, Issue 3

    THE IMPERIUM OF modern television advertising was born in desperate improvisation More >>>

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