Issue
August 1960, Volume 11, No.5
Featured Articles
“damned Plague Ships And Swimming Coffins”
Author: Mary Cable
On the long voyage from Bremen to America, the promised land, emigrants from eastern Europe endured a cramped, dangerous, and disease-haunted pilgrimage
Painter To The People
Author: James Thomas Flexner
In the rural scenes and native landscapes of William Sidney Mount a naive young America saw itself reflected to the life
As One Predident To The Next
Author:
The Girl Who Never Came Back
Author: Allen Churchill
Dorothy Arnold’s baffling disappearance, fifty years afterward, is still unsolved
Captor Of The Barefoot General
Author: Leonard Falkner
In a bold plot, a young Rhode Island officer caught the British commander of Newport in his nightshirt
Epitaph For The Steel Master
Author: Robert L. Heilbroner
Who dies rich, dies disgraced, said Andrew Carnegie. An economist re-examines his brash career in the light of that noble philosophy
Don’t Boil The Calliope Player, Or, Good News For Music Lovers
Author: Oliver Jensen
There Was Another South
Author: Carl N. Degler
Was the old South solidly for slavery and secession? An eminent historian disputes a long-cherished view of that region’s history
Nathaniel Bowditch The Practical Navigator
Author: Paul E. Rink
Salem’s irascible little “arithmetic sailor” made seamanship a science and left all mariners in his debt