Issue

August 1956, Volume 7, No.5


Featured Articles

Kate Was Too Ambitious

Author: Thomas Graham Belden

Salmon P. Chase’s beautiful daughter stopped at nothing, eevenn at marrying a rich scoundrel, in her zeal to make her father President

Brashers Birds

Author:

A portfolio of paintings of American birds from the brush of a great Connecticut artist and naturalist

Fire Makes Wind: Wind Makes Fire

Author: Stewart Holbrook

On the same day that Chicago burned, the Wisconsin woods went up in flames. Peshtigo’s fire missed the headlines hut killed five times as many people.

Who Put The Borax In Dr. Wiley’s Butter?

Author: Gerald H. Carson

False cures and adulterated foodstuffs were flooding the market when a chemist and his “poison squad” pushed through the first Pure Food and Drugs Law

Empires In The Northwest

Author: David Lavender

Excerpts from Land of Giants

Hats On For General Washington

Author: Theodore R. Mckeldin

Resigning his commission, the military hero joined Congress in acting out a strict protocol to symbolize the supremacy of civil government

The Devil And John Randolph

Author: Curtis Carroll Davis

How a statesman’s strange letter settled a court fight over a will

It Was Fun Soldier

Author: Martha Swain

— until the shooting started

The Training Of Woodrow Wilson

Author: John A. Garraty

His career at Princeton prepared him for a larger role, but also showed his strange blend of strength and weakness

The Prince Of Swindlers

Author: John Myers Myers

Janus Addison Reavis got rich—for a time, anyway—on his Peralta land fraud. But in the end he went to jail .