Essays

Title Author Issue
The Great American Game
 Catton, Bruce April 1959
Sitting On A Gusher
 Dolson, Hildegarde February 1959
By Way Of Contrast: “Uncle Dan” Drew
 February 1959
He Did Hold Lincoln’s Hat
 Nevins, Allan February 1959
The Honest Man
 Lyon, Peter February 1959
The Stanleys and their Steamer
 Carlova, John February 1959
“Savages Never Carved These Stones”
 Emmerich, AndrÉ February 1959
The Know-Nothing Uproar
 Billington, Ray February 1959
The Colonel’s Dream Of Power
 Rifkind, Robert February 1959
Death of a Dirigible
 Toland, John February 1959
The Marine Tradition
 Catton, Bruce February 1959
Pioneers In Petticoats
 Smith, Helena February 1959
In A Changing World
 Catton, Bruce February 1959
The Gold Rush
 Catton, Bruce February 1959
Lost World
 Catton, Bruce February 1959
A Winter’s Tale Or, The Legal Mind In Formation
 Hughes, Charles February 1959
Our Two Greatest Presidents
 Rossiter, Clinton February 1959
‘The Smoke, The Thunder, The Roar Of The Battle…”
 Staff, American February 1959
Reading, Writing, And History
 Catton, Bruce February 1959
“Frozen Asset” Or Forty-ninth State?
 October 1958
Tragedy In Dedham
 Russell, Francis October 1958
Eleven Guns For The Grand Union
 Melville, Phillips October 1958
Williamstown Branch
 Duffus, R. October 1958
So You’re Going To America
 Brogan, D. October 1958
Isaac Singer And His Wonderful Sewing Machine
 Lyon, Peter October 1958
Patrolling The Middle Passage
 Furxas, J. October 1958
“I’ll Put a Girdle Round the Earth in Forty Minutes”
 Clarke, Arthur October 1958
The Atlantic Telegraph
 Russell Lld, W October 1958
Untitled
 October 1958
Mr. Godey’s Lady
 Hill, Ralph October 1958
Was John Smith A Liar?
 Fishwick, Marshall October 1958
Daylight In The Swamp
 Holbrook, Stewart October 1958
The Epic Is Yet To Be Written
 October 1958
The Spectral Soldier
 October 1958
A South Artist On The Civil War
 October 1958
A Monument To Oregon’s Pioneers
 August 1958
The Search For The Missing King
 Lyman, Susan August 1958
Jefferson and the Book-burners
 Commager, Henry August 1958
Baghdad On The Freeway
 Nadeau, Remi August 1958
Thoreau Looks To The West
 August 1958
Crisis At The Antietam
 Catton, Bruce August 1958
Bloody Trek To Empire
 Neuberger, Richard August 1958
Astor And Astoria
 Devoto, Bernard August 1958
“Ah, Your Majesty, There Is No Second”
 Loomis, Alfred August 1958
Sailor With A Paintbrush
 August 1958
The Woods Around Us
 Thomson, Betty August 1958
The Coming Of The Green
 O’connor Wibberley, Leonard August 1958
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
The Days of Boom and Bust
 Galbraith, John August 1958
Blondin The Hero Of Niagara
 Graham, Lloyd August 1958
Get The Prospect Seated … And Keep Talking”
 Carson, Gerald August 1958