READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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Bruce Catton

August 1959

14 years ago By admin

Volume

10

Issue

5

Aristotle and Pandora The Basis for Slavery Who Is Superior?

Stories published from " August 1959 "

The Return Of The Resolute

Authored by: Alfred Duning

A rudderless derelict, she had drifted 1,100 miles through polar ice. Her return to England was a tribute to Anglo-American amity

“Perdicaris Alive or Raisuli Dead”

Authored by: Barbara W. Tuchman

John Hay’s ringing phrase helped nominate T. R., but it covered an embarrassing secret that remained concealed for thirty years

New England In The Earliest Days

Authored by: A. L. Rowse

Before Plymouth Colony there was Sagadahoc, the short-lived settlement for which Sir Ferdinando Gorges had high hopes

The Mennonites Come To Kansas

Authored by: Kendall Bailes

Their religion and customs were strange, but these master farmers from the Russian steppes turned a treeless prairie into America’s granary

Mansions On Rails

Authored by: Lucius Beebe

Private Pullmans Were Once the Hallmark of Affluence and Social Success

Prison Camps Of The Civil War

Authored by: Bruce Catton

Andersonville was merely the worst of a bad lot; North and South alike, they were more lethal than shot and shell

Murder At The Place Of Rye Grass

Authored by: Nancy Wilson Ross

The call to convert the heathen brought gentle Narcissa Whitman and her husband to Oregon Territory—and a brutal death

Yours Truly, John L. Sullivan

Authored by: John Durant

Taking on all comers, he had always dropped his man—but his supreme moment came in bare-knuckle boxing’s last great fight

Harold Murdock’s “The Nineteenth Of April 1775”

Authored by: Arthur Bernon Tourtellot

Forty years ago a Boston banker suggested that the Battle of Lexington had become a myth, and later evidence proves him right

Builder for a Golden Age

Authored by: John Dos Passos

Among his many other achievements, Jefferson was one of the leading architects of his day, responsible for the introduction of the Greek Revival style into America.

READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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