POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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April 1976

14 years ago By admin

Volume

27

Issue

3

BENEATH THE RIVER MEIER’S WONDERFULL CLOCK

Stories published from " April 1976 "

Portrait Of A Hero

Authored by: Robert M. Weir

Courtly, gallant, handsome, and bold, John Laurens seemed the perfect citizen-soldier of the Revolution. But why did he have to seek death so assiduously?

Taking Sides In The Boer War

Authored by: Byron Farwell

The United States remained officially neutral, but many Americans fought alongside both opposing armies and several became legendary heroes

The American City

Authored by: The Editors

A gathering of turn-of-the-century paintings

Michigan Timber

Authored by: Bruce Catton

An excerpt from a new bicentennial history of his native state

Asylum In Azilum

Authored by: Diana Forbes-Robertson

Refugees from the French Revolution, many of them of noble birth, built a unique community in the backwoods of Pennsylvania—and hoped their queen would join them

His Most Detestable High Mightiness

Authored by: Ormonde De Kay, Jr.

Besides being a bigot, a fop, and a thief, the British governor Lord Cornbury, had some peculiar fetishes

A Rough Sunday At Peekskill

Authored by: Roger M. Williams

Paul Robeson was giving a concert. It ended in a riot that foreshadowed the McCarthy era of the 1950’s

POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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