Reading, Writing, And History

December 2023

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The Tragic Motive With the Gunners The Technician

Stories published from "August 1958"

Authored by: The Editors

Davy Crockett in Little Rock:

Authored by: Leonard168

The Irish built America’s roads and canals, fought in its wars, and triumphed over poverty and discrimination: it was a grand battle indeed

As the twenties roared on, a market crash became inevitable. Why? And who should have stopped it?

Authored by: Lloyd Graham

By day and by night, frontward and back, his feet in baskets, his head in a sack, he crossed the torrent on a cable—190 feet up

The fleet and lovely America showed her stern to Britain’s best and gave her name to international yachting’s most coveted trophy

Authored by: The Editors

A retired Great Lakes ship captain left a singular record of steamboat days on America’s inland seas

For those with the eyes to read them, New England’s forests, pastures, and stout stone walls reveal cycles of rural life

Authored by: Bruce Catton

Upon the clash of arms near a little Maryland creek hung the slave’s freedom and the survival of the Union

Astoria was the key to the entire Northwest, but half the expedition was led by a “maniac” and the rest were trapped in Hell’s Canyon

THE COURSE OF EMPIRE (Hounghton Mifflin Company)