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June/July 1985

14 years ago By admin

Volume

36

Issue

4

1785 Two Hundred Years Ago 1835 One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago 1860 One Hundred and Twenty-five Years Ago 1885 One Hundred Years Ago 1910 Seventy-five Years Ago

Stories published from "June/July 1985"

FDR’s War with Polio

Authored by: Geoffrey C. Ward

Have historians underestimated the importance of Roosevelt’s 24-year struggle with the disease that made him a paraplegic?

Arms and the Press

Authored by: The Editors

In 1983, our country went to war and left the press behind. The outcry that followed raised issues that first came up when Abraham Lincoln was president and still remain with us.

The First News Blackout

Authored by: Stephen W. Sears

The Civil War ignited the basic conflict between a free press and the need for military security. By war’s end, the hard-won compromises between soldiers and journalists may not have provided all the answers, but they had raised all the modern questions.

From Normandy to Grenada

Authored by: John Chancellor

A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were really high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen.

When Generals Sue

Authored by: Joseph H. Cooper

Westmoreland and Sharon embarked on costly lawsuits to justify their battlefield judgments. They might have done much better to listen to Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman.

Britain’s Yankee Whaling Town

Authored by: Brian Dunning

The curious story of Milford Haven

Britain’s Yankee Whaling Town

Authored by: Brian Dunning

The curious story of Milford Haven

Saint-Gaudens

Authored by: Ruth Mehrtens Calvin

His works ranged from intimate cameos to heroic public monuments. America has produced no greater sculptor.

The Absolute All-American Civilizer

Authored by: Elting E. Morison

A lot of people still remember how great it was to ride in the old Pullmans, how curiously regal to have a simple, well-cooked meal in the dining car. Those memories are perfectly accurate, and that lost pleasure holds a lesson for us that extends beyond mere nostalgia.

The Oddest of Characters

Authored by: Peggy Robbins

Slovenly, impulsive, impoverished, and grotesque, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was the greatest naturalist of his age. But nobody knew it.

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