Reading, Writing, And History

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April 1968

14 years ago By admin

Volume

19

Issue

3

Imagination and History From Dublin to Watts Easter Sunday, 1873

Stories published from "April 1968"

The “Military Crimes” of Charles Lee

Authored by: Thomas Fleming

Hardly had the dust settled at Monmouth when a major general was court-martialled for misbehavior in action. And something else was at stake: George Washington’s prestige

“Our Little War with the Heathen"

Authored by: Andrew C. Nahne

Our first Korean war, in 1871, was fought to open the Hermit Kingdom to Western trade. But the hermits wanted very much to be left alone

Bringing Forth The Mouse

Authored by: Richard Schickel

Some Americans may have trouble listing the fifty united states. Some may be vague about who represents them in Congress. But it’s a sure bet that every one of us—over the age of three— can identify the nation’s most prominent rodent

Grass

Authored by: William Cotter Murray

The wheels of westering settlers moved through an ocean of grass. It was a rich natural heritage, but within a century we almost destroyed it

Butler The Beast?

Authored by: Francis Russell

For nearly fifty years, in one way or another, Ben Butler courted the favor of his state and the nation. He way not have been a bona fide Beauty, but there were times when his traditional nickname did not seem quite fair either

Among The Clouds

Authored by: John H. Ackerman

Tourists who ride the famous cog railway up the precipitous slopes of Mount Washington often feel the sky itself is their destination. Overcoming many obstacles—including a recent serious accident—the little locomotives with their tilted boilers have been huffing and puffing people to New England’s highest summit for nearly a century

A Woman’s Place

Authored by: Janet Stevenson

Fanny Kemble should have known that a beautiful, brilliant, vivacious British actress never, never marries the Butler—especially an American slaveholding Butler with a narrow vision of a wife’s role

Hugo Black and the K.K.K.

Authored by: Virginia Van Der Veer

President Roosevelt had failed to “pack” a hostile Supreme Court, and now the first New Dealer he named to that high bench stood accused of being a lifetime member of the infamous Ku Klux Klan

How To Salt A Gold Mine

Authored by: David Lavender

In the mining country of the Old West some men struck it rich without touching a shovel. All it took was a little legerdemain—and a sucker
bitten by the gold bug

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