READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

May 2025

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April 1969

14 years ago By admin

Volume

20

Issue

3

The Frustrated Liberals Learning to Work Together

Stories published from "April 1969"

Credit Mobilier

Authored by: John L. Phillips

The company’s securities were distributed “where they will do the most good”— into the hands of leaders in Congress.

Mexico

Authored by: Enrique Hank Lopez

In the bright mestizo tapestry of Mexico’s thirty centuries of civilization, the Indian, the Spanish, and the modern threads interweave—and tangle

A Fateful Friendship: Patton and Ike

Authored by: Stephen E. Ambrose

Eisenhower dreamed of serving under Patton, but history reversed their roles. Their stormy association dramatically shaped the Allied assault on the Third Reich.

Louis Philippe In America

Authored by: Morris Bishop

The future French king asked Washington for directions and got an arduous tour of a new nation’s wilderness

The Iron Spine

Authored by: Henry Sturgis

The Union Pacific met the Central Pacific at Promontory—and the nation had truly been railroaded

The Man Who Could Talk To Horse

Authored by: Tom Mccarthy

John Solomon Rarey was possibly the greatest horse tamer the world has ever seen; his incredible feats made him the toast of Victoria, Napoleon III, and the Czar

The Trumpet Sounds Again

Authored by: James Thomas Flexner

After the Revolution, Washington returned to farming at Mount Vernon but eventually called for that he wished a “Convention of the People” to establish a “Federal Constitution”

The Emergence Of Modern Mexico

Authored by: Douglas Tunstell

The period between Mexican independence and the constitution of 1917 was turbulent and painful

READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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