Issue
October 1967, Volume 18, No.6
Featured Articles
Pictures Worth A Second Look
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Canyonlands
Author: Robert L. Reynolds
In the red-rock country of southeastern Utah is a new national park, a quarter-million acres of silence, brilliant color, and vistas unmatched anywhere on Earth.
Benedict Arnold: How The Traitor Was Unmasked
Author: James Thomas Flexner
“Whom can we trust now?” cried out General Washington when he discovered his friend’s “villainous perfidy.”
Casey At The Bat
Author: Martin Gardner
The classic American baseball poem might have vanished if not for an actor's impromptu performance.
The Life And Death Of A Great Newspaper
Author: Fred C. Shapiro
Horace Greeley founded the “Trib”— and the union that eventually helped kill it. But in 125 years it knew many a shining hour.
Benedict Arnold: The Aftermath Of Treason
Author: Milton Lomask
The traitor was not destitute, but his family's life was not comfortable after the Revolutionary War.
Faces From The Past-XXII
Author: Richard M. Ketchum
Gravely ill, John C. Calhoun came to the Senate one last time to call for the South and North to part ways while still equals.
Essay: Filial Piety And The First Amendment
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Frick lawsuit threatens historians' ability to present all sides of a subject.
When The Coachman Was A Millionare
Author: Frank Kintrea
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century you could ride in a handsome coach-and-four from a fashionable hotel on Fifth Avenue to Tuxedo Park or even to Philadelphia. The fare was just three dollars, and your driver might be a Roosevelt or a Vanderbilt.
The Marianas Turkey Shoot
Author: Admiral J. J. Clark
Japanese naval air power was wrecked at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, but, says a U. S. carrier admiral who was there, our Navy missed a chance to destroy the enemy fleet and shorten the war.