POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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October 1965

13 years ago By admin

Volume

16

Issue

6

“Ages” vs. “Angels” A Stickney by Any Other Name Two Civil Wars

Stories published from "October 1965"

Sergt. Bates March

Authored by: Milton Lomask

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

Still Quiet On The Western Front

Authored by: Gene Smith

Half a century ago the glitter of the prewar world was extinguished forever in a 400-mile-long quagmire of barbed wire and mud, dead men and dying hopes. Recently AMERICAN HERITAGE sent a perceptive journalist-historian to revisit the scenes of that longest of all battles. Here is the peaceful present at such places as Verdun and Belleau Wood: the lawns are neat and green, but scaring memories remain.

A Most Satisfactory Council

Authored by: Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

That was what the white men called it, but the Indians could see how the wind was blowing. Would they abandon the hunting grounds of their forefathers without a fight?

“We was amazingly fortunate”

Authored by: Thomas Fleming

—OR—Through the American Revolution with Pluck & Cheek

N. C. Wyeth

Authored by: Henry C. Pitz

The great illustrator found giants in clouds and inspiration in the classics of fiction and history. And, like old Charles Willson Peale, he founded and trained a dynasty of fine artists

Vinland The Good Emerges From The Mists

Authored by: Oliver Jensen

AMERICAN HERITAGE takes part in announcing an astonishing discovery at Yale—the earliest map ever found that shows any part of America. Traced to a copyist in Basel about 1440 A.D., it shows, long before Columbus, the New World lands discovered by the Norsemen. Authenticated by painstaking scholarly detective work at Yale and the British Museum, it opens the door to tantalizing historical speculations

Wyeths On Exhibit

Authored by: The Editors

An American Heritage Portfolio

Green Leaves Of Summer

Authored by: The Editors

The petticoats were heavy, the collars stiff and high, but middle-class American families of the 1880’s enjoyed themselves keenly at their summer homes—and no one even broke into a sweat. A group of remarkable photos preserves the memory of those innocent days

POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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