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July/August 1989

12 years ago By admin

Volume

40

Issue

5

The Last of the Fathers Alfred H. Barr, Jr. George Washington Slept Here Andrew Johnson

Stories published from "July/August 1989"

Minneapolis, D. G.

Authored by: The Editors

John Philip Sousa and his seventyfive-piece band were brought to town to celebrate the building’s opening.

The Last Of The Fathers

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James Madison and the Republican Legacy

Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

Authored by: The Editors

Missionary for the Modern

George Washington Slept Here

Authored by: The Editors

Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876–1986

Andrew Johnson

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A Biography

Liberté Egalité Animosité

Authored by: Garry Wills

When the French Revolution broke out two hundred years ago this month, Americans greeted it enthusiastically. After all, without the French we could never have become free. But the cheers faded as the brutality of the convulsion emerged—and we saw we were still only a feeble newborn facing a giant, intimidating world power.

Lafayette, You Are Here!

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The ubiquitous legacy of America’s favorite Frenchman

Bernhardt In America

Authored by: John Kobler

In the years between the dedication of the Statue of Liberty and the First World War, the Divine Sarah was, for hundreds of thousands of Americans, the single most compelling embodiment of the French Republic

An American Coup in Paris

Authored by: Mark Jenkins

Remember the excitement of the 1924 Olympics in Chariots of Fire? That was nothing compared with what the U.S. rugby team did to the French at those games.

Secrets Of The Model T

Authored by: Albert B. Stephenson

The Tin Lizzie carried us into the twentieth century, but she gave us a hell of a shaking along the way. Now a veteran driver tells what everybody knew and nobody bothered to write down.

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