Fifty Years

July 2026

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June/July 1984

15 years ago By admin

Volume

35

Issue

4

By now you have probably heard from a few thousand upset alumni of Oberlin College, after you mentioned in the December 1983 “Time Machine” that Oberlin opened its doors in 1883 as the “first coeducational college in the world.”

Stories published from "June/July 1984"

The Triumph Of Watergate

Authored by: The Editors

“We do not ordinarily mean to involve ourselves, as historians, in the incomplete events of any given moment,” wrote the editors of this magazine in 1974. But they saw the Watergate cover-up as “an assault on history itself.” Now, ten years after Richard M. Nixon was forced to resign his office rather than submit to impeachment, we have asked two eminent authors to reconsider the events of that incredible summer.

I. The Hour Of The Founders

Authored by: Walter Karp

In which a President fails to fulfill his constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” And a reluctant Congress acts.

II. The Final Act

Authored by: Vance Bourjaily

A sometime “Nixon-hater” looks back on Watergate and discovers that his glee of a decade ago has given way to larger, sadder, and more generous emotions

Painted On Water

Authored by: Jerome Tarshis

Turn-of-the-century American painters came to Venice for its ancient splendors and pearly light. In a few years they captured its canals, palaces, and people in a spirit of gentle modernism that looks better than ever.

The Lawn: America’s Greatest Architectural Achievement

Authored by: James Marston Fitch

In designing, the University of Virginia, Jefferson sought not only to educate young men for leadership, but to bring aesthetic maturity to the new nation

“To Bring You The Picture Of Europe Tonight…”

Authored by: William L. Shirer

In 1938 the European correspondent for CBS was in Austria when the Nazis marched in. He wanted to tell the world about it—but first he had to help invent a whole new kind of broadcasting.

One Hundred Years Of Huck Finn

Authored by: Robert B. Brown

It was a difficult birth, but it looks as if the child will live forever

Down The Mississippi

Authored by: The Editors

From the North Woods to New Orleans with an artist-reporter of the last century

Saving The Statue

Authored by: Frederick E. Allen

After standing in New York Harbor for nearly one hundred years, this thin-skinned but sturdy lady needs a lot of attention. She’s getting it -- from a crack team of French and American architects and engineers.

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