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1980

Stories Published in this Year

Katmai | October/November 1980 (Volume: 31, Issue: 6)

Sixty-eight years before Mount St. Helens blew, Alaska’s Mount Katmai erupted—and nearly brought on a second ice age

Fraternal Arts | October/November 1980 (Volume: 31, Issue: 6)

The Ubiquitous Signs and Symbols of American Freemasonry

In founding Groton, Endicott Peabody was sure that muscular Christianity would protect
boys from the perils of loaferism

An exasperated Ralph Waldo Emerson said of his rudest, most rebellious—and most brilliant—protégé. Their turbulent relationship survived what one newspaper called “the grossest violation of literary comity and courtesy that ever passed under our notice.”

Arkansas saves fragments of the rich but distant past.

A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65

Thomas Dixon | October/November 1980 (Volume: 31, Issue: 6)

AMERICAN CHARACTERS

When Winifred Smith Rieber confidently agreed to paint a group portrait of America’s five pre-eminent philosophers, she had no idea it would be all but impossible even to get them to stay in the same room with one another.

She Had To Die! | October/November 1980 (Volume: 31, Issue: 6)

One of Ruth Snyder’s Crimes Was Murder

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