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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

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

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