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Featured Articles

That Mess On The Prestile

Author: Frank Graham Jr.

From a way Down East came a stench of politics and potatoes, and news of a border incident that true patriots will long remember as

“A Melancholy Case”

Author: Allan L. Damon

In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.

“Never Leave Me, Never Leave Me”

Author: Louis Auchincloss

The Boy Artist Of Red River

Author: Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, young Peter Rindisbacher captured on canvas the lives of Indians and white pioneers on the Manitoba—Minnesota frontier

The Policeman’s Lot

Author: Thomas Fleming

Benevolent father figure? Bloody-handed Cossack? Slow-witted flatfoot? Irish grafter? Brave but underpaid public servant? Check your prejudice against this inquiry into police history

The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy

Author: Tom Mccarthy

The lady author modelled her famous fictional creation after her own wonder boy —and condemned a generation of “manly little chaps” to velvet pants and curls