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Featured Articles

Making History

Author: Bernard A. Weisberger

AN INTERVIEW WITH C. VANN WOODWARD

Patchwork Primitives

Author: Joan Paterson Kerr

Explosion In The Magic Valley

Author:

The Photographic Record of a Western Success Story

Gen. Maxwell Taylor: Memories of Peace and War

Author: Robert S. Gallagher

After a varied career as a soldier, statesman, diplomat, and presidential adviser, Taylor wants to known as someone who “always did his damndest.”

The Newburgh Conspiracy

Author: James W. Wensyel

Encamped above the Hudson for the last, hard winter of the Revolution, the officers of the Continental Army began to talk mutiny. It would be up to their harried commander to defend the most precious principle of the infant nation—the supremacy of civilian rule .

William Randolph Hearst’s Monastery

Author: Robert M. Clements, Jr.

He could build castles at his whim, but the ancient home of a small band of monks defeated him

Yankee Tarzan

Author: Gerald Carson

WHEN JOSEPH KNOWLES STRIPPED TO THE BUFF AND SLIPPED INTO THE MAINE WOODS IN 1913, HE HOPED TO LEAD THE NATION BACK TO NATURE.

After The Air Raids

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith

An insider’s account of a startling— and still controversial—investigation of the Allied bombing of Germany

The Central Park

Author: Walter Karp