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What They Might Have Said:

March 2023
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A Gallery of Heroes Unfortunately Omitted from Leading Histories
Prepared for connoisseurs of pithy military remarks’

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Stories published from "April 1963"

Authored by: George Groh

Underschooled and ill-equipped, the men who attended the pioneers practiced a rugged brand of medicine—but they made some major advances all the same

Authored by: Frederick B. Robinson

He painted his spectacular dream towers to epitomize a hundred years of the American epic—and his own stubborn opinions as well

Authored by: William W. Wade

The Union had failed to prevent the construction of Rebel steam raiders in England. Now the U.S. consul in Liverpool detected a weapon capable of changing the course of the war. But could he prove it to the British?

Authored by: Gerald Carson

American is full of cocktail lounges, and even bars, but they are nothing like that great male institution and home-away-from-home which died with Prohibition

Authored by: Frederic Fox

Was George Washington a failure at raising children? If so, earnest efforts

Authored by: Francis Russell

In the life and death of a scandal-haunted President, some dark regions still remain

Authored by: Emily Hahn

A long-buried series of letters to an African game hunter reveals T. R. as half thinker, half boy scout

Authored by: Marshall B. Davidson

The rediscovery of a Swiss artist’s paintings, hidden in the archives of a German palace for over one hundred years, re-creates the image of America in the 1830’s

Authored by: Ivor NoËl Hume

Where the written word leaves off, the spade must often take over. A well-known archaeologist relates what the earth has revealed about the first permanent British colony in America

Authored by: The Editors

A Gallery of Heroes Unfortunately Omitted from Leading Histories
Prepared for connoisseurs of pithy military remarks’

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