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The key to control of Canada was a city whose defenders doubted they could hold out for long once the American Rebels attacked Read >>

Hoover’s Surprising New Friends | February 1972

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Is Peonage Dead? | April 1972

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Houdini’s High-flying Hoax | April 1972

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Postscripts To History | April 1972

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Lincoln’s Lost Love | April 1972

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Harding Case Concluded | April 1972

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The Revisionist: Dewey At Manila Bay, 1842 | April 1972

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‘Twas The Nineteenth Of April In (18)75 — And The Centennial Was Coming Unstuck | April 1972

On a new bridge that arched the flood Their toes by April freezes curled, There the embattled committee stood, Beset, it seemed, by half the world. Read >>

Letter From The Editor | April 1972

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Private Fastness: Tales Of Wild | April 1972

CUMBERLAND ISLAND AND HOW MODERN TIMES AT LAST HAVE REACHED IT Read >>

A Michigan Boyhood | April 1972

SECOND OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP Read >>

Boston Painters, Boston Ladies | April 1972

Its venerable Museum of Fine Arts revives an era of forgotten beauty in a very proper Bohemia Read >>

“We Are Going To Do Away With These Boys …” | April 1972

The black laborers on John Williams’ plantation never seemed to leave or complain. It took some digging to find out why Read >>

More Sock And Less Buskin | April 1972

In the hands of a rococo Yankee named Clyde Fitch, the American stage came of age with a gasp of scandalized shock Read >>

The End Of The Alabama | April 1972

Captain Semmes was spoiling for a fight—and Winslow of the U.S.S. Kearsarge was waiting for him, just off Cherbourg Read >>

Men of the Revolution: 4. Charles Lee | April 1972

When British dragoons captured this brilliant and ambitious general, it put an end to his ambition to replace Washington as commander-in-chief. Read >>

The Late, Late Frontier | April 1972

What started as fun and games at spring roundups is now a multi-million-dollar sport called rodeo Read >>

Science, Learning, And The Claims Of Nationalism | April 1972

We have come a long way from the philosophy of the Enlightenment...a shift that represents a retreat rather than an advance, argues the noted historian. Read >>

The Legacy Of Craftsmen | April 1972

AMERICAN DESIGN II THEY COMBINED BEAUTY AND UTILITY IN ORDINARY OBJECTS Read >>

Sculpting T.R. | April 1972

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Untitled Backcover | April 1972

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A Hair-raising Experience | June 1972

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Postscripts To History | June 1972

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Cooke The Financier | June 1972

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