POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

May 2025

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June/July 1986

14 years ago By admin

Volume

37

Issue

4

Remembering the Alamo Why I Changed My Mind about the Sacco-Vanzetti Case

Stories published from "June/July 1986"

Part I: Four Centuries Of Surprises

Authored by: David M. Ludlum

We talk about it constantly and we arrange our lives around it. So did our parents; and so did the very first colonists. But it took Americans a long time to understand their weather, and we still have trouble getting it right.

Part II: What Can We Do About It?

Authored by: William B. Meyer

For more than 200 years, Americans have tried to change the weather by starting fires, setting off explosions, cutting trees, even planning to divert the Gulf Stream. The question now is not how to do it, but whether to do it at all.

Perfectly Simple

Authored by: Edward Sorel

William Auerbach-Levy’s genius as a caricaturist lay in what he chose to leave out.

Enlisted for Life

Authored by: Hiller B. Zobel

Oliver Wendell Holmes was wounded three times in some of the worst fighting of the Civil War. But, for him, the most terrible battles were the ones he had missed.

The Impeccable Gardener

Authored by: Julie V. Iovine

Beatrix Farrand’s exactingly beautiful designs changed the American landscape.

Plain Talk from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authored by: Gay Wilson Allen

Many Americans, Hemingway among them, thought him a solemn prig. But Emerson’s biographer discovers a man who found strength and music in the language of the streets.

Inventing a Modern Navy

Authored by: Elting E. Morison

Chaos and farce and catastrophe played a big part. But so did a few men of vision.

The Bottle

Authored by: Betty Mussell Lundy

71 years ago, a designer working frantically to meet a deadline for the Coca-Cola Company produced a form that today is recognized on sight by 90 percent of the people on Earth.

POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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