Packed like animals in the holds of slave ships, Negroes bound for America were prey to disease, brutal masters, and their own suicidal melancholy. Read >>

The Poster Craze | February 1962

For a brief moment in the 1890’s, artistic posters became a cultural rage—almost a mania—in America Read >>

Journey’s End: 1865 | February 1962

Two humble memories—a brakeman‘s and a carpenter’s—bring back the human moments of a nation’s tragedy Read >>

“Then and there the child Independence was born" | February 1962

Long before Lexington, James Otis’ fight for civil liberties gave heart to the rebel cause. But why did he behave so strangely as the Revolution neared? Which side was he on? Read >>

The Prairie Schooner Got Them There | February 1962

Fortress, ambulance, amphibious home on wheels—the humble covered wagon stands as the symbol of the winning of the West Read >>

The Millionaire Reformer | February 1962

In the era of the Bull Moose, Progressivism became a party; the man behind Roosevelt was, of all things, a Morgan partner Read >>

The Face Of Maine | February 1962

A remarkable group of photographs preserves the memory of a vigorous rural people—and a quite vanished world Read >>

The Legend Maker | February 1962

For Mason Locke Weems, ex-parson, book salesman, and moralist, tract-writing and biography were all the same thing. George Washington’s image has yet to recover Read >>

Longfellow and The Jewish Cemetery at Newport | February 1962

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Pearl Harbor: Who Blundered? | February 1962

Though war with Japan was expected momentarily, and four carriers of the Imperial Navy were ominously unaccounted for, no one thought to protect our most important Pacific base from surprise attack. Why? Read >>

Billy Mitchell’s Prophecy | February 1962

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If… | February 1962

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The Disquieting Quaker | April 1962

A hundred years ahead of his time, the fiery abolitionist Benjamin Lay assaulted the consciences of Philadelphia slaveowners—and won Read >>

Thanks, But No Thanks, Mr. Bell | April 1962

The powerful Speaker of the House missed not one but two chances to invest in AT&T in the early days Read >>

“down Sank The Sun, Nor Ceased The Carnage There” | April 1962

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Peary Or Cook: Who Discovered The North Pole? | April 1962

Almost simultaneously two men claimed to have attained a goal that explorers had striven toward for centuries. There were strong hints that one of them was an impostor Read >>

Faces From The Past—VI | April 1962

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They Were All Sure Shots | April 1962

To a wide-eyed public Buffalo Billpresented a group of matchless marksmen —and one unforgettable girl—whose prowess with a rifle was wonderful to see Read >>

Private Yankee Doodle | April 1962

BEING A narrative of some of the adventures, dangers and sufferings of a revolutionary soldier, interspersed with anecdotes of incidents that occurred within his own observation. Read >>

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