To Owen Wister, the unlikely inventor of the cowboy legend, the trail rider was a survivor from the Middle Ages – “the last cavalier,” savior of the Anglo-Saxon race Read >>

Canines To Canaan | February/March 1981

The Story of Some Forgotten Four-Footed Pioneers Read >>

Mason Weems, Bibliopolist | February/March 1981

To mark the birthdays of our two great Presidents, a new look at the legends that surround their memory … An admiring re-appraisal of the Cherry Tree Fable and its author, by Garry Wills , together with the Curious Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters, by Don E. Fehrenbacher Read >>

Mason Weems: Reports From The Front | February/March 1981

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Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters | February/March 1981

A cache of letters, discovered in 1928 and published in the Atlantic Monthly, proved that Abraham Lincoln had really loved Ann Rutledge. Or did they? Read >>

A Bulwark Against Mighty Woes | February/March 1981

The Hundredth Anniversary of the American Red Cross Read >>

“A Very Good Specimen Of The Daguerreotype” | February/March 1981

The story behind the recently rediscovered picture that proved to the world that the human face could be photographed Read >>

Thank You For Not Smoking | February/March 1981

THE HUNDRED-YEAR WAR AGAINST THE CIGARETTE Read >>

Coming Up | February/March 1981

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A Lord Bryce Sampler | April/May 1981

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Making History | April/May 1981

AN INTERVIEW WITH C. VANN WOODWARD Read >>