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Featured Articles

“Rocked in the Cradle of Consternation”

Author: Reverend Henry M. Turner

A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65

Katmai

Author: James C. Simmons

Sixty-eight years before Mount St. Helens blew, Alaska’s Mount Katmai erupted—and nearly brought on a second ice age

Fraternal Arts

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The Ubiquitous Signs and Symbols of American Freemasonry

“old Peabo” And The School

Author: Frank Kintrea

In founding Groton, Endicott Peabody was sure that muscular Christianity would protect
boys from the perils of loaferism

Too Many Philosophers

Author: Dorothy Rieber Joralemon

When Winifred Smith Rieber confidently agreed to paint a group portrait of America’s five pre-eminent philosophers, she had no idea it would be all but impossible even to get them to stay in the same room with one another.

She Had To Die!

Author: Ann Jones

One of Ruth Snyder’s Crimes Was Murder

Trove

Author: Emily Hahn

The saga of Kip Wagner, the first modern American to grow rich from ancient Spanish treasure

Democracy Delineated

Author: Marshall B. Davidson

Declaring himself a “thorough democrat” George Caleb Bingham portrayed the American voter with an artist’s eye—and a seasoned politicians savvy

“turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday”

Author: William Saroyan

Memories of Fresno

Pop Laval

Author: Richard Steven Street