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February/March 1997

14 years ago By admin

Volume

48

Issue

1

Methinks the New York to Paris racers (“The Longest Race”) got mighty wet crossing the “five thousand miles [of Siberia] east from Vladivostok.”

Stories published from "February/March 1997"

A French Count Who Aided the Revolution Was Not Keen on Americans

Authored by: Robert A. Selig

CAPT. LOUIS FRAN’OIS BERTRAND DUPONT D’AUBEVOYE, COMTE DE LAUBERDIÈRE, served the patriot cause in the Revolution, did all he could to teach Virginians proper French manners, made love to the local women, and found every American inferior. Except for one.

1622 Three Hundred And Seventy-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Massacre

1922 Seventy-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Women Who Smoke and the Men Who Arrest Them

1947 Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Stomping at the Kremlin

1972 Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

E.R.A.

Nations Rarely Go to War for Economic Reasons

Authored by: Fredric Smoler

Donald Kagan, a historian of the ancient world believes that, in every era, people have reacted to the demands of waging war in surprisingly similar ways, and that, to protect our national interests today, Americans must understand the choices that soldiers and statesmen made hundreds and even thousands of years ago.

Leaving for Korea

Authored by: James Brady

A young man’s journey from Brooklyn to the world, from boyhood to the glimmerings of maturity, from peace to war

Charles Burchfield, the Great Watercolorist

Authored by: Stephen May

His contemporaries saw the painter Charles Burchfield as another regionalist. Today, it seems clear that the region was the human spirit.

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