William E. Wilson

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Mr. Wilson, a frequent contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE , is the author of Indiana: A History , published last year.
For further reading: The Lords Baltimore and the Maryland Palatinate , by C. C. Hall (J. Murphy, 1902); Maryland; The History of a Palatinate , by W. H. Brown (Houghton Mifflin, 1912).

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Maryland Their Maryland | August 1967
For over a century the colony was the feudal property of the Lords Baltimore. It turned out to be a fee of troubles. Read >>
Hush-a-bye, Indiana | December 1966
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“There I Grew Up” | October 1966
So Abraham Lincoln summed up his boyhood in Indiana. Posterity has made of it a romantic legend, spent in a dark, smoky, crowded, deep in the wilderness Read >>
Long, Hot Summer In Indiana | August 1965
It was 1924 and the Klan was riding high. The author’s father, a congressman, wouldn’t join, and this Is how It felt to be an outcast in one’s own home town that summer. Read >>
Utopia, Limited | October 1964
Of New Harmony, Indiana, its celibates and reformers, and of certain new wrinkles in the pursuit of happiness Read >>

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