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  1. I Fought For Fidel

    By Neill Macaulay, November 1991, Volume 42, Issue 7

    In the twilight of Castro’s regime, one of the soldiers who put him in power recalls what it was like to be a fidelista up in the hills four decades ago when a whole new, just, democratic world was there for the building More >>>

  2. “There I Grew Up”

    By William E. Wilson, October 1966, Volume 17, Issue 6

    So Abraham Lincoln summed up his boyhood in Indiana. Posterity has made of it a romantic legend, spent in a dark, smoky, crowded, deep in the wilderness More >>>

  3. The Ship That Died Of Carelessness

    By Harvey Ardman, December 1983, Volume 35, Issue 1

    The Normandie has been gone since World War II, but many people still remember her as the most beautiful passenger liner ever built. It is the saddest of ironies that she fled her native France to seek safety in New York Harbor. More >>>

  4. Abby, Julia, And The Cows

    By Elizabeth G. Speare, June 1957, Volume 8, Issue 4

    In two dead-game spinsters who wouldn’t be unfairly taxed, the men of Glastonbury met their match and the cause of feminism found a bovine cause célèbre More >>>

  5. Homer Lea & The Decline Of The West

    By Thomas Fleming, May/June 1988, Volume 39, Issue 4

    Early in the century a young American accurately predicted Japan’s imperialism and China’s and Russia’s rise. Then he set out to become China’s soldier leader. More >>>

  6. The “American Woodsman”

    By Marshall B. Davidson, December 1959, Volume 11, Issue 1

    As the frontier moved westward and wildlife declined, the tireless Audubon drove himself to record its wonders More >>>

  7. Robert Ingersoll The Illustrious Infidel

    By Lynne Cheney, February/March 1985, Volume 36, Issue 2

    He built a career and a fortune out of shocking his fellow Americans More >>>

  8. The Main Stream Of New England

    By Ellsworth S. Grant, April 1967, Volume 18, Issue 3

    Flowing from the Canadian border to Long Island Sound, nourishing both industry and agriculture, and carrying on its back sailing sloops, steamships, and pleasure craft, the Connecticut River has been for three hundred years. More >>>

  9. The Farm Boy And The Angel

    By Carl Carmer, October 1962, Volume 13, Issue 6

    Of sensitive, mystical Joseph Smith, of a heavenly visitor and a buried scripture, and of the founding of a new religion destined to enlist many followers and carve from the desert a new Zion More >>>

  10. The Coal Kings Come To Judgment

    By Robert L. Reynolds, April 1960, Volume 11, Issue 3

    When the anthracite miners downed tools in 1902, economic feudalism went on trial More >>>

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