READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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Bruce Catton

August 1968

14 years ago By admin

Volume

19

Issue

5

Stories published from "August 1968"

The Bombing of Monte Cassino

Authored by: Martin Blumenson

The Allied drive toward Rome had stalled. Was the destruction of a historic monastery justified in an effort to break the German line and get the campaign moving again?

The Great Racetrack Caper

Authored by: Rufus Jarman

The bookies had to get racing data from paddock to betting parlor. All at once some very shady characters began showing up at the entrance to the track

Honey Fitz

Authored by: Francis Russell

John F. Fitzgerald put his seal on his city, his times, and a political tribe that still increases. To foes he was “Fitxblarney” but friends called him

Pershing’s Island War

Authored by: Thomas Fleming

Home-front antiwar sentiment soared as ever more troops were sent to fight a fierce guerilla enemy in the Philippine “Black Jack” was caught in the cross fire

A Warm Evening At The Rock

Authored by: Scarritt Adams

Captain Newton, immensely proud of his new steam frigate, was enjoying an excellent dinner ashore. Then a strange glow began to light the sky over Gibraltar

National Portrait Gallery

Authored by: Richard M. Ketchum

On the site where Pierre L’Enfant once envisioned a pantheon, the nation’s heroes are being assembled in the form of a

The Slopes of Kilimanjaro

Authored by: Carlos Baker

Into one famous short story Ernest Hemingway threw “the material of four novels.” Here his foremost biographer probes that story to reveal a great writer at work

A “New And Strange Order Of Men”

Authored by: Edwin A. Hoey

Just what moved those Revolutionary War officers to form the Society of the Cincinnati, America’s first veterans’ organization? Some said it was treason

An Indian Captivity

Authored by: Gary Jennings

The kidnapped frontier woman might have thought twice about trying to escape had she known that what lay beyond—the way home—could be as dangerous as the Shawnees who held her

READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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