READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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Bruce Catton

June 1963

12 years ago By admin

Volume

14

Issue

4

The American Tradition The Call of Duty On the Dusty Soil

Stories published from "June 1963"

“The Seals Are About Gone…”

Authored by: Jeanne Van Nostrand

The crusading conservationist thought he had saved the fur seal from extinction. Then from the Pribilofs, home of the last great herd, came an alarming telegram:

Dr. J. H. Mclean’s Peace Makers

Authored by: Richard M. Ketchum

Sixty-five years before the bomb destroyed Hiroshima, a medicine man from Sf. Louis dreamed up a weapons system “so terrible and devastating” as to banish war forever. He would be, he modestly admitted, the savior of mankind

Bonus March

Authored by: John D. Weaver

By freight train, on foot, and in commandeered trucks, thousands of unemployed veterans descended on a nervous capital at the depth of the Depression—and were run out of town by Army bayonets

The Day Jefferson Got Plastered

Authored by: Donald B. Webster, Jr.

The aged ex-President grew giddy and his family became alarmed as the mask-maker’s formula hardened around his venerable head

Du Pont Storms Charleston

Authored by: Shelby Foote

Could ironclads successfully attack land positions? No one knew. Into the very “nest of the rebellion,” sewn with mines and ringed by bristling forts, steamed the proud monitors of the Union fleet

Summertime Revisited

Authored by: Suzanne T. Cooper

Of resorts and vacationers in the long ago, when the sports wore stiff collars and the dream girls five-piece bathing suits, and Americans became reacquainted with nature

This Honorable Court

Authored by: The Editors

The Supreme Court has become the most powerful judicial body in the world. In a new series under the editorship of Professor John A. Garraty , AMERICAN HERITAGE examines the crucial, often bitterly fought cases that have helped define the Court s unique role as a shaper of the nation’s history

“A Set of Mere Money-Getters”?

Authored by: Allan Nevins

Were the great business tycoons of the nineteenth century only that? A distinguished historian says no—most emphatically

Phantom Cities In A Promised Land

Authored by: Bertha L. Heilbron

An artist turned land agent used his paintings to promote paper townsites in Minnesota. Though most of these settlements failed to materialize, his charming record of an opening frontier remains

A Leader Ahead Of His Times

Authored by: Louis C. Jones

Who was the prosperous Negro in the long-lost painting? Scraps of evidence pieced together have revealed him to be

READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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