Issue
August 1970, Volume 21, No.5
Featured Articles
The Environment: Notes On The Continuing Battle
Author: Elizabeth N. Layne
The Thankless Task Of Nicholas Trist
Author: Richard M. Ketchum
You are conducting secret peace talks with the enemy in the midst of an unpopular and interminable foreign war. The American field commander is throwing every obstacle in your path. Then, just as the talks are getting somewhere, the President orders you home. What do you do now?
"Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead!—"
Author: Arthur B. Tourtellot
Death, hunger, disease, and suffering from bitter cold or sweltering heat were common experiences on the dozen British prison ships in New York harbor during the Revolution.
How To Score From First On A Sacrifice
Author: John Holway
A Clean Break With The Past
Author: John Brooks
“In terms of change in American attitudes and American values, these last five years have surely been the crucial ones in the quarter century since V-J Day. And these changes seem of such a magnitude that every American except the very young, the very empty, and the very enclosed must now, to some extent, feel himself a foreigner in his native land”
Aunt Clara’s Luminous World
Author: John Graves
The “memory paintings” of a lady now ninety-four celebrate the life of rural Texas as it was when she grew up there
A Mission For Mr. Wedgwood
Author: Hensleigh C. Wedgwood