Issue
April 1962, Volume 13, No.3
Featured Articles
La Follette: The Promise Unfulfilled
Author: John A. Garraty
Massacre!
Author: Ralph K. Andrist
Minnesota’s Sioux uprising began with senseless murder on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. Before it ended, the smell of death was everywhere
The Disquieting Quaker
Author: Blanche Day
A hundred years ahead of his time, the fiery abolitionist Benjamin Lay assaulted the consciences of Philadelphia slaveowners—and won
Thanks, But No Thanks, Mr. Bell
Author: Joseph G. Cannon
The powerful Speaker of the House missed not one but two chances to invest in AT&T in the early days
Peary Or Cook: Who Discovered The North Pole?
Author: John Edward Weems
Almost simultaneously two men claimed to have attained a goal that explorers had striven toward for centuries. There were strong hints that one of them was an impostor
Faces From The Past—VI
Author:
They Were All Sure Shots
Author: James B. Trefethen
To a wide-eyed public Buffalo Billpresented a group of matchless marksmen —and one unforgettable girl—whose prowess with a rifle was wonderful to see
Private Yankee Doodle
Author: Joseph Plumb Martin
BEING
A narrative of some of the adventures, dangers and sufferings of a revolutionary soldier, interspersed with anecdotes of incidents that occurred within his own observation.
Thackeray In Love
Author: Lida Mayo
“You may marry anybody you please & I don’t care.” Thus the famous English author to wild, pretty Sally Baxter of New York; which is to say that he—and his American love—never got over it at all.
Ocean To Ocean—by Automobile!
Author: Bruce Catton
Cross-country touring was difficult, half a century ago, but if you could make it, you really had an adventure