Issue
June 1963, Volume 14, No.4
Featured Articles
“A Set of Mere Money-Getters”?
Author: Allan Nevins
Were the great business tycoons of the nineteenth century only that? A distinguished historian says no—most emphatically
Phantom Cities In A Promised Land
Author: Bertha L. Heilbron
An artist turned land agent used his paintings to promote paper townsites in Minnesota. Though most of these settlements failed to materialize, his charming record of an opening frontier remains
A Leader Ahead Of His Times
Author: Louis C. Jones
Who was the prosperous Negro in the long-lost painting? Scraps of evidence pieced together have revealed him to be
Marbury V. Madison -The Case of the “Missing” Commissions
Author: John A. Garraty
Trail Blazer Of The Far West
Author: Stephen W. Sears
Long before Frémont, Jedediah Smith mapped huge regions between Salt Lake and California. He ranks beside Lewis and Clark in the annals of American exploration
Bloody Belleau Wood
Author: Laurence Stallings
Plain Words From Truthful George
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“The Seals Are About Gone…”
Author: Jeanne Van Nostrand
The crusading conservationist thought he had saved the fur seal from extinction. Then from the Pribilofs, home of the last great herd, came an alarming telegram:
Dr. J. H. Mclean’s Peace Makers
Author: Richard M. Ketchum
Sixty-five years before the bomb destroyed Hiroshima, a medicine man from Sf. Louis dreamed up a weapons system “so terrible and devastating” as to banish war forever. He would be, he modestly admitted, the savior of mankind
The Day Jefferson Got Plastered
Author: Donald B. Webster, Jr.
The aged ex-President grew giddy and his family became alarmed as the mask-maker’s formula hardened around his venerable head