Issue

June 1976, Volume 27, No.4


Featured Articles

“A Representative of America”

Author: Arnold Whitridge

Vain, snobbish, distinctly upper-class in his libertine social habits, Gouverneur Morris nevertheless saw himself justifiably as "A Representative of America"

A Step Back In Time

Author:

A trip to the Ozarks in 1910 has left us a unique record of a people by-passed by progress

Steam Road To El Dorado

Author: David McCullough

Mile for mile, it cost more in dollars—and lives—than any railroad ever built

Cadet Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Tom Johnson

The young poet became a legendary plebe in the few painful months he spent at West Point

Men of the Revolution: 17. Joseph Reed

Author: Richard M. Ketchum

The Siege Of Vicksburg

Author: Richard Wheeler

The Revolution Continues

Author: Bruce Catton

The American Revolution is still going on—not because we ourselves are wise and good but because it embodies an idea that reaches everybody and will never lose its force.

The Therapy of Distance

Author: Daniel J. Boorstin

The broad expanse of ocean that separated Plymouth from Mother England helped create a novel experiment in democracy that grew as the American colonies expanded.

When The New World Dazzled The Old

Author: John Maass

Fifty European nations came to America on her hundredth birthday—and, for the first time, took her seriously