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This Hallowed Ground | October 1956
AN EXCERPT FROM A NEW BOOK WHICH TELLS HOW THE CIVIL WAR CAME TO ITS TERRIBLE, HAUNTING CONCLUSION Read >>
Myths That Hide The American Indian | October 1956
Forget the stereotypes. The red man was of many tribes, with variations much broader than tradition supposes. Read >>
When They Built The Big Bridge | October 1956
John Roebling lost his life and his son lost his health, but after sixteen years the incredible Brooklyn Bridge was finished Read >>
Allan Mclane Unknown Hero Of The Revolution | October 1956
Dashing fighter, daring scout, this romantic trooper played a large part in Washington’s triumph at Yorktown Read >>
And The Navy Got Its Wings | October 1956
Rickety flight deck, primitive plane — Read >>
Sheaves Of Golden Grain | October 1956
Cyrus McCormick fought hard to win the “harvester war”—and brought the machine age to America’s farms Read >>
Robert Morris and the “Art Magick” | October 1956
Skillful money-juggling by America’s first financier aided the new nation but led Morris himself to utter ruin Read >>
Builders For The Carriage Trade | October 1956
The Brewsters spanned an era and spanned it with style Read >>
Reading, Writing And History | October 1956
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American Tragedy | October 1956
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Dickens In America: The Boz Ball | December 1957
TO WELCOME CHARLES DICKENS, NEW YORK STAGED ITS GREATEST PARTY—AND THEN SPOILED EVERYTHING BY TRYING TO REPEAT IT AT HALF-FRICE Read >>
Reading, Writing, And History | December 1957
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America: Curator Of British Political Relics | December 1957
An English observer says our party workings, patronage, sheriffs., and grand juries are museum pieces from Britain’s past Read >>
A Congressman’s Prayer | December 1957
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An Iowa Christmas | December 1957
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Fire-eating Farmer Of The Confederacy | December 1957
At Sumter Edmund Ruffin unwittingly pushed toward ruin the region whose agricultural economy he had revived Read >>
“The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny” | December 1957
The daring epic of the filibusters reached a lurid climax when little William Walker captured the sovereign state of Nicaragua Read >>
“We Were There, Waiting—” | December 1957
The repulse of Pickett’s charge, described in a little-known account written shortly after the battle by a Union officer Read >>
The Third Day at Gettysburg | December 1957
First lieutenant on Brigadier General John Gibbon’s staff, at Gettysburg; later colonel of the 36th Wisconsin; killed at Cold Harbor. Read >>
Apostle To The Indians | December 1957
John Eliot preached to the Massachusetts savages, printed the Bible in their “barbarous Linguo,” and tried to reply to their disquieting questions Read >>
Gettysburg Today | December 1957
Where Gallant Spirits Still Tell Their Story Read >>
Bonnet, Book, And Hatchet | December 1957
Weapon in hand and Biblical imprecations on her lips, Carry Nation campaigned to save men from the drunkard’s fate Read >>
Farewell To Steam | December 1957
The iron horses that built America are nearly all gathered on the other side of Jordan Read >>
A Re-examination | December 1957
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Great Man Eloquent | December 1957
To an emotional people, it is not the senator, not the corporation lawyer, not the secretary of state, but the poet’s Daniel Webster who still lives Read >>
The Undimmed Appeal Of The Gibson Girl | December 1957
She was forever a girl — forever young and beautiful, feminine without being (in today’s terms) sexy. Read >>
The Undimmed Appeal Of The Gibson Girl | December 1957
She was forever a girl — forever young and beautiful, feminine without being (in today’s terms) sexy. Read >>
T. R. On The Telephone | December 1957
By private wire from Oyster Bay Roosevelt angled for the 1916 Progressive and Republican nominations, but his strategy backfired and killed the Progressive party Read >>
War Makes Thieves, Peace Hangs Them | February 1957
In an era that condoned smuggling and lawbreaking the transition from privateer to pirate was easy Read >>
Reading, Writing And History | February 1957
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