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Featured Articles

One-Shot War With England

Author: Warren G. Magnuson

It lasted for years and the outcome was decided by the Kaiser. The total casualties: one dead pig

The Long Drive

Author: Perry Case

A cowboy’s own story of his experiences on the trail from Texas to Chicago

The Revolution’s Caine Mutiny

Author: Richard B. Morris

In Pierre Landais the Continental Navy had its own real-life Commander Queeg. His tour as master of the Alliance was a nightmare wilder than any a novelist could invent

Miss Knight Abroad

Author: Alexandra Lee Levin

For a provincial belle from Natchez, the Grand Tour was a priceless introduction to Europe’s art, its feudal pomp, and its tourist trade

The Moving Image

Author: Robert Gessner

Three Americans created the art of the motion picture, and made it the universal language of the twentieth century

The Fearless Frogman

Author: Peter Lyon

It was thirty miles offshore, and stormy, but the daredevil swimmer plunged into the Atlantic with a crisp “Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen!” Our author recalls bold Captain Boyton, a mixture of Jules Verne, Tom Swift, and a bit of Walter Mitty.

Russians In California

Author: Allan Temko

An Imperial colony on our West Coast was their aim; Fort Ross was their military outpost; and the stakes—higher than they realized

Footprints Of The Great Ice

Author: Ralph K. Andrist

The glacier that covered most of North America scarred the land, turned rivers in their courses, and deeply influenced our history

Children Of The Young Republic

Author: George R. Clay

As the nation changed, so did its theories about raising youngsters. Prayed over or let run wild, and always the despair of foreign visitors, they have usually survived

The Coal Kings Come To Judgment

Author: Robert L. Reynolds

When the anthracite miners downed tools in 1902, economic feudalism went on trial