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
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
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 .