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March 2023
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I am writing to thank you for your excellent article on my father, LeConte Stewart, which appeared in your August/September 1985 issue. Our family is appreciative of the thoughtful treatment by Mr. Stegner as well as the quality of the reproductions. The colors and tones are amazingly faithful to the original canvases.

The article has contributed measurably to my father’s sense of accomplishment as he nears the end of his life.

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Stories published from "February/March 1986"

Authored by: The Editors

A set of turn-of-the-century glass-plate negatives bought at an auction prompted a New York photographer to set off for central Ohio to document architectural and social change

Authored by: Bernard Bailyn

Just before the Revolution, newly studied documents reveal, the flight of British subjects to the New World forced a panicky English government to wrestle with this question

Authored by: Brock Yates

A leading authority picks the top ten. Some of the names still have the power to stir the blood. And some will surprise you.

Authored by: Robert V. Remini

On the 150th anniversary of Texan independence, we trace the fierce negotiations that brought the republic into the Union after ten turbulent years

Authored by: William Broyles, Jr.

The Lone Star state as it once was—proud, isolated, independent, the undiluted essence of America forever inventing itself out of the hardscrabble reality of the frontier

Authored by: Tom Swafford

It took place in 1948, and it was orchestrated—with difficulty—by the program director of a faltering Portland, Oregon, radio station. He persuaded two Republican candidates to argue formally about an actual issue with no intervening moderator.

The idealists who founded this Utopian colony were singularly well versed in mystical philosophy— and singularly ignorant about farming

Authored by: Wenhui Hou

After a year at the University of Missouri boning up on American history, a Chinese professor tells what she discovered about us and how she imparts her new knowledge to the folks back home in the People’s Republic.

Authored by: Jerome Tarshis

A former Department of Defense adviser—one of Robert S. McNamara’s Whiz Kids—explains why we tend to overestimate Russian strength, and why we underestimate what it will cost to defend ourselves

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