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The Last Cruise of the YP-438
, , , Issue 4His job was to destroy German submarines. To do it, they gave him 12 men, three machine guns, four depth charges, and an old wooden fishing schooner with an engine that literally drove mechanics mad. More >>>
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A Place to Be Lousy In
, , , Issue 8The American army that beat Hitler was thoroughly professional, but it didn’t start out that way. North Africa was where it learned the hard lessons, and none were harder than the disaster at Kasserine. This was the campaign that taught us how to fight a war. More >>>
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The Thrifty Spy On The Sixth Avenue El
, , , Issue 1Herr Doktor Albert was very careful with the Kaiser’s money. One day he saved a $1.25 taxi fare—and lost a million dollar’s worth of information More >>>
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A Whistle Good-bye
, , , Issue 1An era is ending on America’s inland waterways. A century and a hall after it began—with the launching of Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat in 1807—the Age of Steam is chufling to a d More >>>
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If Tortugas Let You Pass
, , , Issue 2How Cape Hatteras earned its evil notoriety as graveyard of the Atlantic—and how it looked to a speculative novelist on tour More >>>
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Thoreau Walks The Cape
, , , Issue 3In the blustery days of late fall, the traveler still can find the sparseness and solitude that so greatly pleased the Concord naturalist in 1849 More >>>
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The Ed Sullivan Age
, , , Issue 3He took vaudeville, Broadway, the tabloids, and, with his strange, gray, tongue-tied genius, melded them into a working model of a better America More >>>
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McKinley Reconsidered
, , , Issue 1Although his flamboyant successor, Theodore Roosevelt, greatly overshadowed him, William McKinney deserves credit for establishing the United States as a global power, acquiring Hawaii and Puerto Rico, establishing the “fair trade” doctrine, and paving the way for TR’s accomplishments. More >>>
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West Point in Review
, , , Issue 3The old school is alive with the memory of men like Lee, Grant, Pershing, and Eisenhower. More >>>
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Going Home with Mark Twain
, , , Issue 6WILLIE MORRIS revisits a book that nourished him as a boy and discovers that the landscapes which the young Samuel Clemens navigated are in fact the topography of Morris’ own life. More >>>