Issue

February 1965, Volume 16, No.2


Featured Articles

The Search For A Usable Past

Author: Henry Steele Commager

A distinguished historian describes how America, suddenly thrust into nationhood without a history of its own, set out to create one. And what a splendid achievement it was!

She Who Shall Be Nameless

Author: Mary Cable

“It’s a picture of your father’s mother’s mother’s mother,” was my mother’s explanation when at twelve I asked about the faded daguerreotype in the breakfront. But she would not say any more

Innocents At Home

Author: Jon Swan

A Visit To Mount Vernon

Author: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

The Polish poet stayed twelve days and saw it all—the great gardens, pretty Nellie Custis, the distillery, the toy Bastille, the wretched slave huts, the great man himself denouncing the irritating French

The Question Is: How Lost Was Zebulon Pike?

Author: Donald Jackson

In a strange message to the intriguing General Wilkinson, the soldier-explorer seemed to predict his own geographical befuddlement and his capture by the Spanish.

A Note For Expectant Parents

Author: Oliver Jensen

Mardi Gras: The Golden Age

Author: Leonard V. Huber

How Some Were Burned…

Author: Kenneth W. Duckett