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Featured Articles
The American Land As It Was
Author: Walter Karp
The Gallantry of An “Ugly Duckling”
Author: Robert L. Vargas
Outgunned by the Nazi raider, the Stephen Hopkins could have struck her colors. Instead she elected to fight
There Was A Storm Outside And A Bit Of Frost Within
Author: William Manners
(when Taft succeeded Teddy Roosevelt) (at one of the White House’s most unfortunate house parties)
The Lower Depths Of Higher Education
Author: Morris Bishop
Do today’s turbulent college campuses make you long for the good old days? The facts may dampen your nostalgia
An Anniversary
Author:
The Death Of A Hero
Author: James Thomas Flexner
Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived
A Wooden Parade
Author: Mary Black
Letters from “An American Mother”
Author: Eric Lund
A Flier’s Journal
Author: Gen. George C. Kenney
The planes were fragile and the Boche was tough, but the girls were pretty, the wine was good, and death was something that happened to someone else
1857
Author: Oliver Jensen
Is it really true that the more things change, the more they stay the same? Once upon a time, before the bureaucratic society, before modern war and technology, there was a very different world, and not so long ago. Let us revisit, picking at random, the year