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November 1989

13 years ago By admin

Volume

40

Issue

7

Sci-Fi History Morgan’s Magnitude Morgan’s Magnitude Morgan’s Magnitude Even TR Failed Slow Post Meet Me in Frisco Whose Beef? Wrong Ship, Wrong Side Detour Detour Edison Did Hear A House Seen Anew A Taller Tower No Anomaly In Old Colorado City Life beyond TV Family History

Stories published from "November 1989"

Tinker Tailor

Authored by: Ken Heyman

Occupational tintypes are about as cheap today as when they were made, but they offer a valuable look at working-class America during and just after the Civil War

The Real War

Authored by: Roger J. Spiller

Walt Whitman said, “The real war will never get in the books.” The critic and writer Paul Fussell feels that the same sanitizing of history that went on after the 1860s has erased the national memory of what World War II was really like.

The Gothic Awakening

Authored by: Alexander O. Boulton

The medieval look that swept America a hundred and fifty years ago wasn’t just a matter of nostalgia for pointed archways and crenellated towers; it was also the very model of a modern architectural style

Respectfully Quoted

Authored by: The Editors

A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service

The Bishop’s Boys

Authored by: The Editors

A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

Enchanted Drawings

Authored by: The Editors

The History of Animation

High Honor

Authored by: The Editors

Recollections by Men and Women of World War II Aviation

Ghost Signs

Authored by: The Editors

Brick Wall Signs in America

No Thanks for Thanksgiving

Authored by: Arthur Nielsen

When President Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving, the anti-Federalists complained it usurped States’ Rights

The Wimp Factor

Authored by: Bruce Curtis

A year ago we were in the midst of a presidential campaign most memorable for charges by both sides that the opponent was not hard enough, tough enough, masculine enough. That he was, in fact, a sissy. Both sides also admitted this sort of rhetoric was deplorable. But it’s been going on since the beginning of the Republic.

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