Reading, Writing And History

December 2024

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For an Emotional Understanding Think Again The Other Extreme Let the Peole Know Mr. Lincoln’ Weapons Desolate South The Town Hall

Stories published from " June 1956 "

Authored by: Allan Nevins

John Charles Frémont never succeeded in living up to his fame, yet he was one of America’s great explorers

Authored by: Roy F. Nichols

The political convention was devised to meet an unforeseen need, and now and then it has an unexpected result

Authored by: Roger Burlingame

Roger Williams liked Indians and almost everyone else, and he founded a colony that gave our freedom a broader horizon

Authored by: Curtis Dahl

Washington would be a capital of Egyptian pillars and Roman splendor if this hardware merchant’s grandiose plan had been adopted

Authored by: Reginald Hargreaves

Stickler for a point of honor, the General marched to defeat and helped to lose a war

Authored by: Gerald W. Johnson

Her past was shady but her conscience was excellent, and all in all she played a big part in the emancipation of women

Authored by: Lucius Beebe

For decades the private railroad car was the great symbol of wealth. Here is what it looked like in its heyday.

A southern woman’s memoir of a by-gone era

Along the Mississippi the spirit of vanished culture lingers in the ruined columns of the great plantations

Authored by: The Editors

SEAMAN HEYN’S STORY
FROM THE NAVAL ARCHIVES OF WORLD WAR II