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A Rich And Varied Record Of Indian Life

March 2023
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Stories published from "August 1959"

Authored by: Alfred Duning

A rudderless derelict, she had drifted 1,100 miles through polar ice. Her return to England was a tribute to Anglo-American amity

Authored by: Barbara W. Tuchman

John Hay’s ringing phrase helped nominate T. R., but it covered an embarrassing secret that remained concealed for thirty years

Authored by: A. L. Rowse

Before Plymouth Colony there was Sagadahoc, the short-lived settlement for which Sir Ferdinando Gorges had high hopes

Authored by: Kendall Bailes

Their religion and customs were strange, but these master farmers from the Russian steppes turned a treeless prairie into America’s granary

Authored by: Lucius Beebe

Private Pullmans Were Once the Hallmark of Affluence and Social Success

Authored by: Bruce Catton

Andersonville was merely the worst of a bad lot; North and South alike, they were more lethal than shot and shell

Authored by: Nancy Wilson Ross

The call to convert the heathen brought gentle Narcissa Whitman and her husband to Oregon Territory—and a brutal death

Authored by: John Durant

Taking on all comers, he had always dropped his man—but his supreme moment came in bare-knuckle boxing’s last great fight

Forty years ago a Boston banker suggested that the Battle of Lexington had become a myth, and later evidence proves him right

Authored by: John Dos Passos

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