1787 Two Hundred Years Ago

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April 1987

14 years ago By admin

Volume

38

Issue

3

April 16: The first comedy written by a native American and produced professionally appears at New York’s John Street Theater. It is The Contrast , by Royall Taylor.

Stories published from "April 1987"

Traveling With A Sense Of History

Authored by: Otto Friedrich

From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past

The House At Hyde Park

Authored by: Geoffrey C. Ward

A biographer who knows it well tours Franklin Roosevelt’s home on the Hudson and finds it was not so much the President’s castle as it was his formidable mother’s.

Southwestward The Great American Space

Authored by: Alfred Kazin

A journey through a wide and spellbinding land, and a look at the civilization along its edges.

The Charleston Inheritance

Authored by: Shirley Abbott

In the quiet luxury of the historic district, a unique form of house plan—which goes back two hundred years—is a beguiling surprise for a visitor

Thoreau Walks The Cape

Authored by: Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr.

In the blustery days of late fall, the traveler still can find the sparseness and solitude that so greatly pleased the Concord naturalist in 1849

America In London

Authored by: Brian Dunning

Within the city’s best-known landmarks and down its least-visited lanes stand surprisingly vivid mementos of our own national history

To Save The World We Built

Authored by: Selma Rattner

Every town you pass through has felt the impact of the modern historic-preservation movement. Now a founder of that movement discusses what is real and what is fake in preservation efforts.

Starting Again In San Francisco

Authored by: Richard Reinhardt

No city has more energetically obliterated the remnants of its past. And yet no city has a greater sense of its history.

1787 Two Hundred Years Ago

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