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March 2023
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Stories published from "October 1958"

Authored by: Stewart H. Holbrook

Old-time logging in the Pacific Northwest was “a wildly wonderful if tragically heedless era”; there are those who still mourn its passing

Authored by: The Editors

A Glorification of Southern Patriotism— Balanced by Depiction of Northern Cruelty

Authored by: Ralph Nading Hill

Gentle Sarah Hale, widowed at forty, created our first successful women’s magazine and popularized the Paris fashions she regarded with deep distrust

Authored by: Marshall Fishwick

The Jamestown founder is one of those early American heroes about whom historians are apt to lose their tempers

Authored by: Peter Lyon

An erratic genius and his sober-sided partner made their product a household necessity and built fortunes which their numerous progeny have spent in ways both beneficent and bizarre

Authored by: J. C. Furxas

Congress agreed to join Britain in suppressing the brutal and cunning slave trade, but Southern influence hamstrung the Navy when it came to enforcing the law

Authored by: Arthur C. Clarke

It took a decade of effort, heart-breaking disappointments, and the largest ship afloat before Cyrus Field could lay a successful cable across the Atlantic

Authored by: Francis Russell

A restrospect of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial

Authored by: Phillips Melville

When American colonists sorely needed friends, a Dutch island governor risked political ruin by saluting the rebels’ flag

Authored by: D. W. Brogan

A letter to a French friend

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