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Was the old South solidly for slavery and secession? An eminent historian disputes a long-cherished view of that region’s history

Salem’s irascible little “arithmetic sailor” made seamanship a science and left all mariners in his debt

Twice in one generation we kept Russia from starving; the Kremlin plays it down, but the people we fed remember—and history will not forget

Electric cars may come back but never, alas! the patrician Woods

On the long voyage from Bremen to America, the promised land, emigrants from eastern Europe endured a cramped, dangerous, and disease-haunted pilgrimage

In the rural scenes and native landscapes of William Sidney Mount a naive young America saw itself reflected to the life

—FOUR EUROPEANS VIEW THE CIVIL WAR

Dorothy Arnold’s baffling disappearance, fifty years afterward, is still unsolved