READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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Bruce Catton

February 1961

13 years ago By admin

Volume

12

Issue

2

Where the Buck Stops Failure of a President The Meaning of Victory

Stories published from "February 1961"

Penn’s City: American Athens

Authored by: Marshall B. Davidson

From wilderness to foremost city of the colonies, and then to cosmopolitan capital of the Republic—this was Philadelphia’s first century

The Storming of the Alamo

Authored by: Charles Ramsdell Jr.

None of its defenders survived, so that legends obscure their fate. But the facts do no dishonor to these beleaguered men, sworn to fight on until the end “at the peril of our lives, liberties and fortunes”

Father Of The Modern Submarine

Authored by: Richard K. Morris

Dauntless John Holland not only perfected the undersea boat but fought to get it accepted. Both achievements brought him only grief

When The Red Storm Broke

Authored by: William Harlan Hale

To a Russia in revolution, America sent rival groups of amateur diplomats. The calamitous results of their indecision still afflict us

Braddlock’s Alumni

Authored by: Robert C. Alberts

Or, a dogged attempt to assemble a most remarkable company—the famous survivors of the battle lost by a British general on the Monongahela. Everybody who was anybody was there, from George Washington to Daniel Boone. Everybody, that is, but B. Gratz Brown

The Working Ladies Of Lowell

Authored by: Bernard A. Weisberger

Proud and independent, the farm girls of New England helped build an industrial Eden, but its paternalistic innocence was not to last

“What A Sight It Was!”

Authored by: James Taylor Forrest

William Cary, traveling west on the Missouri, recorded the life and landscape of a rapidly vanishing frontier

Professor Of The World’s Wonders

Authored by: Louise Hall Tharp

Everything interested Louis Agassiz, from tiny fish to gigantic glaciers, and he transmitted his enthusiasm to the students of a whole generation

Billy Mitchell In Alaska

Authored by: Brigadier General William Mitchell

Early in his military career, the apostle of air power blazed a trail through the wilderness, forging the last link in a telegraph line to the edge of the Bering Sea

READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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