POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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April 1971

13 years ago By admin

Volume

22

Issue

3

RIGHT FACE AMEN … AND A MAID NEVER ASK A LADY … SOLD OUT PARSON WEEMS’S LAW LAST STOP

Stories published from "April 1971"

T.R.

Authored by: The Editors

on the Writing of History

The Legend Of A Lake

Authored by: Franklin Russell

CONSERVATION

The “mostest Hoss”

Authored by: Peter Chew

Concerning the long life, fast times, and astonishing fecundity of Man o’ War

How Not To Fly The Atlantic

Authored by: Richard Montague

A few days after Lindberg's crossing, the second flight across the Atlantic carried the first passenger and was lucky to make it to Germany.

The Old Vets

Authored by: Robert Merrill Dewey

Year by year the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic grew thinner — but until the last old soldier was gone, Decoration Day in a New England town was a moving memorial to “the War”

At War With The Stars and Stripes

Authored by: Herbert Mitgang

Army newspapers in World Wars I and II were unofficial, informal, and more than the top brass could handle

Voices Of Lexington And Concord

Authored by: Richard Wheeler

What was it like to actually be there in April, 1775?
This is how the participants, American and British, remembered it

The Wizards Meet

Authored by: John Dos Passos

The celebrated novelist and historian John Dos Passos wrote a prose poem about the visit that Albert Einstein paid to Charles Steinmetz, the "The Wizard of Schenectady."

POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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