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April 2023
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“Foreign devils approach, Comrade Premier.
Which is Head Mandarin and which is Hon. Kissinger?

“I regret I cannot say, Comrade Chairman.
All Americans, you know, look alike.”

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Stories published from "April 1972"

Authored by: David B. Little

On a new bridge that arched the flood Their toes by April freezes curled, There the embattled committee stood, Beset, it seemed, by half the world.

Authored by: William W. Winn

CUMBERLAND ISLAND AND HOW MODERN TIMES AT LAST HAVE REACHED IT

Authored by: Bruce Catton

SECOND OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS

A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP

Authored by: The Editors

Its venerable Museum of Fine Arts revives an era of forgotten beauty in a very proper Bohemia

Authored by: Pete Daniel

The black laborers on John Williams’ plantation never seemed to leave or complain. It took some digging to find out why

Authored by: Peter Andrews

In the hands of a rococo Yankee named Clyde Fitch, the American stage came of age with a gasp of scandalized shock

Authored by: Norman C. Delaney

Captain Semmes was spoiling for a fight—and Winslow of the U.S.S. Kearsarge was waiting for him, just off Cherbourg

Authored by: Richard M. Ketchum
When British dragoons captured this brilliant and ambitious general, it put an end to his ambition to replace Washington as commander-in-chief.
Authored by: Gerald Carson

What started as fun and games at spring roundups is now a multi-million-dollar sport called rodeo

Authored by: Henry Steele Commager

We have come a long way from the philosophy of the Enlightenment...a shift that represents a retreat rather than an advance, argues the noted historian.

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