April 1976

Volume 27 , Issue 3

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DEPARTMENTS

FEATURES

Portrait Of A Hero

Courtly, gallant, handsome, and bold, John Laurens seemed the perfect citizen-soldier of the Revolution. But why did he have to seek death so assiduously?

Robert M. Weir

Taking Sides In The Boer War

The United States remained officially neutral, but many Americans fought alongside both opposing armies and several became legendary heroes

Byron Farwell

The American City

A gathering of turn-of-the-century paintings

Michigan Timber

An excerpt from a new bicentennial history of his native state

Bruce Catton

Asylum In Azilum

Refugees from the French Revolution, many of them of noble birth, built a unique community in the backwoods of Pennsylvania—and hoped their queen would join them

Diana Forbes-Robertson

His Most Detestable High Mightiness

Besides being a bigot, a fop, and a thief, the British governor Lord Cornbury, had some peculiar fetishes

Ormonde De Kay, Jr.

Tree House

How Miss Perkins Learned To Lobby

George Martin

A Rough Sunday At Peekskill

Paul Robeson was giving a concert. It ended in a riot that foreshadowed the McCarthy era of the 1950’s

Roger M. Williams