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February/March 1979

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Volume

30

Issue

2

For Brothers in Blue, Or Sunshine and Shadow of the War of the Rebellion, A Story of the Great Civil War From Bull Run to Appomattox The War, the West and the Wilderness Benjamin West

Stories published from "February/March 1979"

Four Brothers In Blue, Or Sunshine And Shadows Of The War Of The Rebellion

Authored by: Barbara Klaw

A Story Of The Great Civil War From Bull Run To Appomattox

A Celebration Of Cities

Authored by: The Editors

These immaculate and minutely detailed aerial views flattered the resident and attracted the investor

The Cyclone Assemblyman

Authored by: Edmund Morris

When Theodore Roosevelt—Harvard-educated, dandified, and just twenty-three—arrived in Albany as an assemblyman in 1882, the oldpols dismissed him as a “Punkin-Lily,”and worse. They were in for a shock.

America’s Cities Are (mostly) Better Than Ever

Authored by: Richard C. Wade

Today’s city, for all its ills, is “cleaner, less crowded, safer, and more livable than its turn-of-the-century counterpart,” argues this eminent urban historian. Yet two new problems are potentially fatal. …

The White Plague

Authored by: Elizabeth C. Mooney

A young girl’s memories of life in a community haunted by

Getting To Know The National Domain

Authored by: Wallace Stegner

One hundred years ago, Congress created two agencies—the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnology. Both, according to the author, have since “given direction, form, and stimulation to the science of earth and the science of man, and in so doing have touched millions of lives.”

Theodolites And Medicine Shirts

Authored by: The Editors

NOTES FROM A CENTURY OF GOVERNMENT SCIENCE

Said Chicago’s Al Capone:“I Give The Public What The Public Wants…”

Authored by: John G. Mitchell

What the public wanted, it seemed, was a vice and bootleg business netting sixty million dollars a year-and many gangland funerals

Grand Ole Opry

Authored by: William Price Fox

The story of the world’s longest-running radio program and the extraordinary American music it helped make popular