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The Rise Of The Supermarket
Author: Tevere Macfadyen
It didn’t just change the way we buy our groceries. It changed the way we live our lives.
Boosting The West
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The Wyoming photographer Joseph Stimson proudly portrayed his region in the years when it was emerging from rude frontier beginnings
Sinclair Lewis Got It Exactly Right
Author: Alfred Kazin
He re-created with perfect pitch every tone of voice, every creak and rattle of an America that was disintegrating even as it gave birth to the country we inhabit today
Four Months On The Front Line
Author: Nikolai Stevenson
A former Marine recalls the grim defense of Guadalcanal in 1942
FDR And The Kingfish
Author: William E. Leuchtenburg
A brilliant demagogue named Huey Long was scrambling for the Presidency when an assassin’s bullets cut him down just fifty years ago
“We Get the Technology We Deserve”
Author: Hal Bowser
A leader in the emerging field of technological history speaks about the inventors who made our modern world and tells why it is vital for us to know not only what they did, but how they thought
Master Of Sensuos Line
Author: Sandra Leff
John White Alexander began his career as an office boy at Harper’s Weekly and rose to be a leading painter of his generation, especially of its women
Knowledge Beyond Numbers
Author: Elting E. Morison
At a time when our civilization is trying to organize itself on scientific principles of mathematical probabilities, statistical modeling, and the like, is traditional narrative history of any real use? Yes, says a distinguished practitioner of the discipline; it can always help us. It might even save us.