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Reading, Writing, And History

March 2023
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Dire and Diabolical The Reformer The Manipulator

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Stories published from "October 1960"

Authored by: Albert Castel

On the flaming Kansas-Missouri border the name of Quantrill struck terror in men’s hearts. He was a cruel and ruthless guerrilla who burned, robbed, and killed without mercy; but legend made of him a hero dashing and bold

Authored by: Samuel Shapiro

A long and arduous voyage around the Horn made a man of a sickly socialite and gave literature an enduring classic

Authored by: Warren G. Magnuson

Egypt’s locusts could not have been more terrible than those which blighted the Great Plains for four summers, then vanished as mysteriously as they had come

Authored by: Louis W. Koenig

A loophole in the Constitution made it possible for the winner of the popular majority in 1876, Tilden, to lose to Hayes in the electoral college amid bitterness, fraud, and chicanery. It could happen again

Authored by: Allan Nevins

His shrewd handling of the Radical Republican bid for power at the end of 1862 established him as the unquestioned leader of the Union

Authored by: Thurman Arnold

First among all nations the United States made “restraint of trade” a crime, and voted an economic ideal into law. One of its most energetic exponents looks back on that unique, vague, and unenforceable bit of legislation: the Sherman Antitrust Act

Authored by: Eric W. Barnes

They marched across a bridge at Salem —and then marched right back again

Authored by: Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

To David Thompson—who died blind, penniless, and bypassed by history—we owe our first knowledge of the American continent’s rugged Northwest

Authored by: The Editors

BOL’SHAYA SOVETSKAYA ENTZIKLOPEDIYA, VOLUME VII, PAGE 70

Authored by: The Editors

Comment by Marcus Cunliffe, author of George Washington, Man and Monument:

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