Issue

April 1955, Volume 6, No.3


Featured Articles

The Way To The Big Sea Water

Author: Walter Havighurst

A century ago the Soo canal was an insignificant ditch in a remote northern wilderness. Today it serves as the busiest industrial highway on earth.

Sidewheeler For Shelburne

Author: Ralph Nading Hill

A determined collector brings a steamboat to her museum of Americana—by rail.

General Lee’s Unsolved Problem

Author: Clifford Dowdey

A southern writer analyzes the handicaps unwittingly laid on the general by President Davis

Eli Whitney: Nemesis Of The South

Author: Arnold Whitridge

Having given slavery a new lease on life, he then made Northern triumph inevitable

The Peales

Author: Oliver Jensen

‘The ingenious Captain Peale” sired a dynasty of painters and started America’s first great museum.

The Last War Cruise Of Old Ironsides

Author: Lynn W. Turner

From her chaplain’s diary comes this graphic story of the final sea battle of America’s famous frigate

“To Open The Door”

Author: Milton S. Eisenhower

A famous educator reviews 100 years of service by the land-grant colleges

The Letter That Bought An Empire

Author:

Written in haste, on an April midnight in 1803, the unedited text of the message that led to the Louisiana Purchase is printed for the first time.

Big Guns For Washington

Author: Clay Perry

How tough Henry Knox hauled a train of cannon over wintry trails to help drive the British away from Boston