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Don’t Boil The Calliope Player, Or, Good News For Music Lovers | August 1960
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There Was Another South | August 1960
Was the old South solidly for slavery and secession? An eminent historian disputes a long-cherished view of that region’s history Read >>
Nathaniel Bowditch The Practical Navigator | August 1960
Salem’s irascible little “arithmetic sailor” made seamanship a science and left all mariners in his debt Read >>
Bread Upon The Waters | August 1960
Twice in one generation we kept Russia from starving; the Kremlin plays it down, but the people we fed remember—and history will not forget Read >>
Herbert Hoover: The Making Of A Villain | August 1960
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No Fuel, No Fumes, No Flats, No Fuss | August 1960
Electric cars may come back but never, alas! the patrician Woods Read >>
“damned Plague Ships And Swimming Coffins” | August 1960
On the long voyage from Bremen to America, the promised land, emigrants from eastern Europe endured a cramped, dangerous, and disease-haunted pilgrimage Read >>
Writers Of The Purple Prose | August 1960
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A New Amusement | August 1960
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Gems From The Gay Dog’s Companion | October 1960
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The Bloodiest Man In American History | October 1960
On the flaming Kansas-Missouri border the name of Quantrill struck terror in men’s hearts. He was a cruel and ruthless guerrilla who burned, robbed, and killed without mercy; but legend made of him a hero dashing and bold Read >>
“See Those Men! They Have No Flag!” | October 1960
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With Dana Before The Mast | October 1960
A long and arduous voyage around the Horn made a man of a sickly socialite and gave literature an enduring classic Read >>
Pharaoh Had It Easy | October 1960
Egypt’s locusts could not have been more terrible than those which blighted the Great Plains for four summers, then vanished as mysteriously as they had come Read >>
The Election That Got Away | October 1960
A loophole in the Constitution made it possible for the winner of the popular majority in 1876, Tilden, to lose to Hayes in the electoral college amid bitterness, fraud, and chicanery. It could happen again Read >>
Lincoln Takes Charge | October 1960
His shrewd handling of the Radical Republican bid for power at the end of 1862 established him as the unquestioned leader of the Union Read >>
The Battle Of Fredericksburg | October 1960
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In Defense Of The Bald Eagle | October 1960
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The Law To Make Free Enterprise Free | October 1960
First among all nations the United States made “restraint of trade” a crime, and voted an economic ideal into law. One of its most energetic exponents looks back on that unique, vague, and unenforceable bit of legislation: the Sherman Antitrust Act Read >>
All The King’s Horses… And All The King’s Men | October 1960
They marched across a bridge at Salem —and then marched right back again Read >>
A Man to Match the Mountains | October 1960
To David Thompson—who died blind, penniless, and bypassed by history—we owe our first knowledge of the American continent’s rugged Northwest Read >>
A Soviet View Of Six Great Americans | October 1960
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BOL’SHAYA SOVETSKAYA ENTZIKLOPEDIYA, VOLUME VII, PAGE 70 Read >>
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Comment by Marcus Cunliffe, author of George Washington, Man and Monument: Read >>
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BOL’SHAYA SOVETSKAYA ENTZIKLOPEDIYA, VOLUME XIV, PAGE 225 AND 226 Read >>
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Comment by Richard B. Morris, Gouverneur Morris professor of history at Columbia University; editor of the Encyclopedia of American History: Read >>
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BOL’SHAYA SOVETSKAYA ENTZIKLOPEDIYA, VOLUME XLII, PAGES 37 AND 38 Read >>
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Comment by Henry Nash Smith, professor of English at the University of California and literary editor of the Mark Twain Estate: Read >>
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BOL’SHAYA SOVETSKAYA ENTZIKLOPEDIYA, VOLUME XXXVI, PAGE 636 Read >>
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Comment by John A. Garraty, professor of history at Columbia University and biographer of many late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century figures: Read >>

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