Trusted Writing on History, Travel, and American Culture Since 1949
Search for Flag Torn
Search results
Limit results to:
-
Countdown In Tennessee, 1920
, , , Issue 1The hour-by-hour suspenseful story of the climactic struggle for equal voting rights for women More >>>
-
The Intrepid Mr. Curtiss
, , , Issue 3The fastest man in the air competed with the Wrights for ten years, became rich, and awakened America to the air age. More >>>
-
Why They Impeached Andrew Johnson
, , , Issue 1One of the saddest tales in American history tells how a well-intentioned President lost a dazzling opportunity More >>>
-
Johnstown: “Run For Your Lives!”
, , , Issue 4In 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 >>>
-
Inventing A Modern Navy
, , , Issue 4Chaos and farce and catastrophe played a big part. But so did a few men of vision. More >>>
-
The American Field Service
, , , Issue 1EQUIPMENT WAS HARD TO COME BY, RED TAPE WAS RAMPANT. BUT AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS IN FRANCE BUILT AN AMBULANCE CORPS THAT PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR I More >>>
-
The Great Sea Battle
, , , Issue 1Battle can never be civilized, but in a century of total war and almost total barbarism it is refreshing to look back upon chivalrous combat. If it is gallantry and honor, even quixotism, you thirst for in a barren time, they are at their highest in the duel between His Britannic Majesty’s frigate Shannon and the United States frigate Chesapeake , which met off Boston in the calm, early evening of June 1, 1813. Here is an authoritative and totally absorbing description of that famous enco More >>>
-
Ursus Horribilis In Extremis
, , , Issue 6The Last Stand of King Grizzly More >>>
-
Battle At Homestead
, , , Issue 3The furnaces were cooled, and Carnegie’s great steel plant stood empty—but dawn would bring one of the bloodiest labor-management struggles in U.S. history More >>>
-
Of Noble Warriors And Maidens Chaste
, , , Issue 3Oriana Weems, Alma Lamour, Caroline Fitzhugh, Seth Rawbon, Netley Shiplake, Mordaunt—none of these improbable names is likely to mean anything to the modern reader, but to the generation that lived More >>>