READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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Bruce Catton

August 1963

13 years ago By admin

Volume

14

Issue

5

The American Leviathan Territorial Experiment What the War Meant The Unending Task

Stories published from "August 1963"

“It Is … A Small College … Yet, There Are Those Who Love It”

Authored by: Richard N. Current

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD

The Man Who Invented Panama

Authored by: Eric Sevareid

A distinguished newsman recalls a snowy night in wartime Paris, when a radio network briefly rescued from obscurity “one of the most extraordinary Frenchmen who ever lived”

Meeting With The West

Authored by: Carl H. Boehringer

In the 1860’s, Japanese artists pictured the first Americans in a newly opened land. Their work was a mixture of keen observation and delightful misinformation

My Father’s Grocery Store

Authored by: Paul M. Angle

It was a lot of work, but somehow running a retail food store in the pre-cellophane era was rewarding

Mammon & Monuments

Authored by: Walter Muir Whitehill

Commercial enterprise and history seldom make comfortable bedfellows

End Of A Friendship

Authored by: Charles Seymour

“Mr. House is my second personality,” said Woodrow Wilson early in his Presidency. Then, as the Paris Peace Conference proceeded, the friendship dissolved —for reasons that have never been fully understood. As he lay dying in 1938, Colonel House gave his explanation to President Charles Seymour of Yale, editor of his Intimate Papers , with the understanding that it remain secret for 25 years after his death. Here, for the first time, it is revealed.

The Action Off Flamborough Head

Authored by: Oliver Warner

His main-deck guns were silenced, his hold was filling fast, and one of his own ships was firing into him. Still John Paul Jones refused to strike

Eyewitnesses Describe The Battle

Authored by: The Editors

“I have not yet begun to fight”

Mark Twain’s San Francisco

Authored by: Bernard Taper

Sam Clemens, jack of many trades, hit the big town in 1864. Two years later, his true vocation discovered, he strode upon the national scene as Mark Twain

When Chicago Burned

Authored by: The Editors

The whole center of the metropolis was ablaze: a hundred thousand people fled from their homes in panic

READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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