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Featured Articles

Daylight In The Swamp

Author: Stewart H. Holbrook

Old-time logging in the Pacific Northwest was “a wildly wonderful if tragically heedless era”; there are those who still mourn its passing

A South Artist On The Civil War

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A Glorification of Southern Patriotism— Balanced by Depiction of Northern Cruelty

Mr. Godey’s Lady

Author: Ralph Nading Hill

Gentle Sarah Hale, widowed at forty, created our first successful women’s magazine and popularized the Paris fashions she regarded with deep distrust

Isaac Singer And His Wonderful Sewing Machine

Author: Peter Lyon

An erratic genius and his sober-sided partner made their product a household necessity and built fortunes which their numerous progeny have spent in ways both beneficent and bizarre

Patrolling The Middle Passage

Author: J. C. Furxas

Congress agreed to join Britain in suppressing the brutal and cunning slave trade, but Southern influence hamstrung the Navy when it came to enforcing the law

“I’ll Put a Girdle Round the Earth in Forty Minutes”

Author: Arthur C. Clarke

It took a decade of effort, heart-breaking disappointments, and the largest ship afloat before Cyrus Field could lay a successful cable across the Atlantic

Tragedy In Dedham

Author: Francis Russell

A restrospect of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial

Eleven Guns For The Grand Union

Author: Phillips Melville

When American colonists sorely needed friends, a Dutch island governor risked political ruin by saluting the rebels’ flag

Williamstown Branch

Author: R. L. Duffus

So You’re Going To America

Author: D. W. Brogan

A letter to a French friend