POSTSCRIPIS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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December 1973

12 years ago By admin

Volume

25

Issue

1

TALKING WITH FALA THE UNEASY CHAIR FACES FROM THE PAST BAD DAY AT WALNUT CREEK

Stories published from "December 1973"

Mary Cassatt

Authored by: David Lowe

“I do not admit that a woman can draw like that,” said Degas when he saw one of her pictures

“What Good Is a New-born Baby?”

Authored by: Joan Paterson Kerr

OF BALLOONS, THE FIRST AIR-MAIL LETTERS, AND THE EVER-ENTERPRISING FRANKLIN FAMILY

Men of the Revolution: 11. George Rogers Clark

Authored by: Richard M. Ketchum

Clark’s career was like the passage of a meteor—a quick, fiery moment that lit up the heavens for all to see and wonder at, then vanishing in oblivion.

Common Sense

Authored by: Bernard Bailyn

The Most Uncommon Pamphlet of the Revolution

The Income Tax And How It Grew

Authored by: Gerald Carson

… and grew, and grew, and grew …

A Sweep Of Bridges

Authored by: David Flowden

“De railroad bridges’s A sad song in de air…”

Churchill Talks To America

Authored by: Kenneth McArdle

FOR SEVEN DECADES OUR EBULLIENT COUSIN INSTRUCTED US ON EVERYTHING: THE BOERS, PROHIBITION, HITLER, CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S FEET, AND THE COMMON CAUSE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

The Carpetbagger

Authored by: Bernard A. Weisberger

A TALE OF RECONSTRUCTION
Of the turbulent career of Pinckney B. S. Pinchback, adventurer, operator, and first black governor of Louisiana. He reminds one powerfully, says the author, of the late Adam Clay ton Powell, Jr.

POSTSCRIPIS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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