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The curious career of the Hays Office Read >>

Pricing The Past | February/March 1980

A splendid gathering of American folk art—half a century before its time Read >>

The Mystic Vision Of Everett Scholfield | February/March 1980

A Connecticut photographer’s record of life in a shipbuilding town Read >>

Access | February/March 1980

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Art Of The People | February/March 1980

A major new exhibition celebrates the bright, idiosyncratic paintings of America’s folk artists Read >>

George Washington and “The Guilty, Dangerous & Vulgar Honor” | February/March 1980

In an age of ersatz heroes, a fresh look at the real thing Read >>

Dear Boss: | February/March 1980

Unpublished letters from Dean Acheson to Ex-President Harry Truman Read >>

“…Suddenly We Didn’t Want, To Die” | February/March 1980

A Marine Remembers the Battle for Belleau Wood Read >>

Consider The Oyster | February/March 1980

It saved the early Colonists from starvation, it has caused men to murder each other, it used to be our most democratic food—in short, an extraordinary bivalve Read >>

Pie Town | February/March 1980

The last homesteading community, a Depression-era experiment—and a selection of the rare color photographs that recorded it Read >>

About Face | February/March 1980

How A.A. Griffith abandoned a college presidency to answer the call to greater duty, as explained in the 1884 edition of Hill’s Album of Biography & Art Read >>

When Bunkers Last In The Backyard Bloom—d | February/March 1980

The fallout-shelter craze of 1961 Read >>

Belle Boyd | February/March 1980

She was “one of the most active and most reliable of the many secret woman agents of the Confederacy.” Read >>

Going For The Horns | February/March 1980

The 1,200-Mile Race Between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee Read >>

Listening | April/may 1980

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The Philadelphia Ladies Association | April/may 1980

Although it has been disparaged as “General Washington’s Sewing Circle,” this venture was the first nationwide female organization in America Read >>

Good Reading | April/may 1980

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