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Main Street

Author: Mark Schorer

With the publication of his acid-etched but enormously popular portrait of the American small town, Sinclair Lewis emerged as the spokesman for a new literary generation

Faces From The Past—IV

Author: Richard M. Ketchum

The Minister And The Mill Girl

Author: George Howe

Was Parson Avery innocent of poor, pregnant Maria Cornell’s murder, as his fellow ministers maintained, or was a guilty hypocrite concealed by his cleric’s garb? A glimpse at the legal process in 1833 New England

Fiorello’s Finest Hour

Author: M. R. Werner

Once upon a time an honest man ran for mayor of New York City — and, naturally, lost

By Canoe To Empire

Author: Hugh Mac Lennan

Paddling and portaging their way westward, pursuing the fur-bearing beaver in a trade where none but the hardiest could survive, the highhearted voyageurs and the enterprising Scots who led them opened Canada’s rich hinterland

The Best Ree-maining Seats

Author: Ben M. Hall

For gilt, gimcrack glamour, and gaudy décor the movie place of the 1920’s had no equal

Walter Camp And His Gridiron Game

Author: John Stuart Martin

Man and boy—as player, “coach of coaches,” and keeper of the rule book— he was the guiding genius in the crucial, formative years of college football

Americans Abroad

Author: Richard Gilman

To Henry James, as to his fellow expatriates Whistler and Sargent, the culture of the Old World was “vast, vague and dazzling,” yet they could never quite forget or abandon the New

A Near Thing at Yorktown

Author: Harold A. Larrabee

“Admiral Graves lost no ships… he merely lost America”