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Picnics Long Ago

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If it rained, the painters failed to record it

Sphairistiké, Anyone?

Author: E. M. Halliday

Introduced not quite a century ago under a name born for oblivion, the game of tennis promises to last forever

England’s Vietnam: The American Revolution

Author: Richard M. Ketchum

A domino theory, distant wilderness warfare, the notion of “defensive enclaves,” hawks, doves, hired mercenaries, possible intervention by hostile powers, a Little trouble telling friendly natives from unfriendly—George III went through the whole routine

Hell’s Highway To Arnhem

Author: Stephen W. Sears

Operation Market-Garden promised to lay an airborne red carpet to victory, but its final objective proved to be “a bridge to far.”

A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama!

Author: David McCullough

The Big Ditch had so far been a colossal flop, and Teddy Roosevelt desperately needed an engineering genius who could take over the job and “make the dirt fly.” The answer was not the famous Goethals, but a man whom history has forgotten.

To The Flag

Author: Nat Brandt

Invented as part of a magazine promotional scheme in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance has had a controversial career right from the start

The Untold Delights Of Duluth

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A few dazzling words about that emerging metropolis, delivered in 1871 by Congressman J. Proctor Knott. Edited for 1971 visitors by David G. McCullough

Which Way America? Dulles Always Knew

Author: John Fenton

The job ran in the family; both his uncle and grandfather were Secretaries of State. Home life in a parsonage taught him piety, and the law precision. The rigid views of a world divided between good and evil he worked out, apparently, himself. Private letters and new taped recollections help explain the shaping of the man who set our Cold War foreign policy

Spoon River Revisited

Author: Edward Laning

An artist recalls his Midwestern home town and the poet who made it famous

Sweet Extract Of Hokum

Author: Gerald Carson

Patent medicines were usually neither patented nor medicinal, which is not to say they didn’t (and don’t) have any effect