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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