AGE OF THE OCTAGONThe brief mid-nineteenth-century popularity of eight-sided houses has left us a strange and delightful architectural legacy.
by Alexander Ormond Boulton
MR. McCLURE AND WILLADespite temperamental differences, the Midwestern writer WiIh Gather and the crusading editor S. S. McClure enjoyed a splendid working relationship for six years and a lifetime of mutual respect.
by Phyllis C. Robinson
THE GUN THE ARMY CANT KILL“I don’t want this thing often,” one soldier said of his .45 automatic pistol, “but when I do, I want it damned bad.”
by Peter Andrews
DIGGING UP THE U.S.In the underpinnings of our cities, in desolate swampland, beneath coastal waters—wherever the early settlers left traces of their lives—a new generation of archaeologists is uncovering a lost world.
by Robert Friedman
“EXPLAINING WHAT YOU ARE AFTER IS THE SECRET OF DIPLOMACY”This century’s most powerful Secretary of State talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the Foreign Service, the role of the CIA, the rights of journalists, the contrast between meddlers and statesmen—and about the continuing struggle for a coherent foreign policy.
An Interview With Henry A. Kissinger by Robert Bendiner
RADIO GROWS UPHow the novelty item of 1920 became the world-straddling colossus of 1940.
by Alice Goldfarb Marquis
HOBO NICKELSOne of America’s least-known and most curious folk arts.
by Delma K. Romines
OUR TOWN, 1900A recently discovered collection of glass-plate negatives offers a remarkable look at our grandparents. A SHORT HISTORY OF HEART SURGERY“A wound in the heart is mortal,” Hippocrates said two thousand years ago. Until very recently he was right.
by William A. Nolen
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