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John Filson first brought the frontier hero to notice, giving him fine words that made him the idol of the romanticists Read >>

The Mills of Early America | October 1955

An artist recalls the picturesque devices that helped a young nation get ready for the age of machinery Read >>

Reading, Writing And History | October 1955

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The Lower Depths | October 1955

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Debt To The Immigrant | October 1955

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Leader Of A Lost Cause | October 1955

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Men, Not Laws | October 1955

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Henry Adams’ Prophecy | October 1955

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The Drive for Speed At Sea | October 1955

The clippers were beautiful, fast, too expensive to endure long—and a perfect expression of a great American urge Read >>

Quiet Earth, Big Sky | October 1955

How the Saskatchewan-Montana prairie country looked a generation ago, and what it meant to a youngster who lived there Read >>

Uncle Tom, The Theater And Mrs. Stowe | October 1955

Brought to the stage without her consent, this enduring American drama did not bring the author a cent—but it gave actors a living for generations Read >>

In Defense Of the Victorian House | October 1955

Despite lapses in taste and confusion as to style the Nineteenth-Century architect knew that he was doing, and often did it well Read >>

A Portfolio Of Victorian Architecture | October 1955

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Lord Liverpool And the United States | October 1955

Spokesman for a rising industrialism, this prime minister bid for free trade with the United States and helped to create something quite different Read >>

Martyr For A Free Press | October 1955

Matthew Lyon did not like John Adams, and insisted on his right to say so. He spent months in jail but he could not be silenced. Read >>

Death On The Dark River | October 1955

Most terrible steamboat disaster in history, probably, was the loss of the Sultana in 1865. Some 1,700 returning Union veterans died—yet the tragedy got very few headlines. Read >>

The Primitive and the Park | October 1955

A recently discovered sketchbook of Lewis Miller Read >>

The Giants of American Conservatism | October 1955

A thoughtful discussion of the men who contributed the most to what is now the dominant political pattern Read >>

Palmetto Fort, Palmetto Flag | October 1955

Aided by certain residents of South Carolina, Colonel Moultrie built a fort, beat a British fleet, and started an enduring legend of valor Read >>

The Fascinating Memoirs Of A Civil War Reporter | October 1955

•“Three Years with Grant”• Read >>

Three Years with Grant | October 1955

The memoirs of Civil War correspondent SYLVANUS CADWALLADER were recently discovered and edited by Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas Read >>