Issue

April 1969, Volume 20, No.3


Featured Articles

The Man Who Could Talk To Horse

Author: Tom Mccarthy

John Solomon Rarey was possibly the greatest horse tamer the world has ever seen; his incredible feats made him the toast of Victoria, Napoleon III, and the Czar

A View Of The Moon From The Sun: 1835

Author: Joseph L. Morrison

The Emergence Of Modern Mexico

Author: Douglas Tunstell

The period between Mexican independence and the constitution of 1917 was turbulent and painful

Louis Philippe In America

Author: Morris Bishop

The future French king asked Washington for directions and got an arduous tour of a new nation’s wilderness

The Iron Spine

Author: Henry Sturgis

The Union Pacific met the Central Pacific at Promontory—and the nation had truly been railroaded

The Trumpet Sounds Again

Author: James Thomas Flexner

After the Revolution, Washington returned to farming at Mount Vernon but eventually called for that he wished a “Convention of the People” to establish a “Federal Constitution”

Mexico

Author: Enrique Hank Lopez

In the bright mestizo tapestry of Mexico’s thirty centuries of civilization, the Indian, the Spanish, and the modern threads interweave—and tangle

A Fateful Friendship

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose

Eisenhower dreamed of serving under Patton, but history reversed their roles. Their stormy association dramatically shaped the Allied assault on the Third Reich