Issue

October/November 1980, Volume 31, No.6


Featured Articles

“old Peabo” And The School

Author: Frank Kintrea

In founding Groton, Endicott Peabody was sure that muscular Christianity would protect
boys from the perils of loaferism

Too Many Philosophers

Author: Dorothy Rieber Joralemon

When Winifred Smith Rieber confidently agreed to paint a group portrait of America’s five pre-eminent philosophers, she had no idea it would be all but impossible even to get them to stay in the same room with one another.

She Had To Die!

Author: Ann Jones

One of Ruth Snyder’s Crimes Was Murder

Trove

Author: Emily Hahn

The saga of Kip Wagner, the first modern American to grow rich from ancient Spanish treasure

Democracy Delineated

Author: Marshall B. Davidson

Declaring himself a “thorough democrat” George Caleb Bingham portrayed the American voter with an artist’s eye—and a seasoned politicians savvy

“turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday”

Author: William Saroyan

Memories of Fresno

Pop Laval

Author: Richard Steven Street

“Half Song-thrush, Half Alligator,”

Author: Justin Kaplan

An exasperated Ralph Waldo Emerson said of his rudest, most rebellious—and most brilliant—protégé. Their turbulent relationship survived what one newspaper called “the grossest violation of literary comity and courtesy that ever passed under our notice.”

A Heritage Preserved

Author: T. H. Watkins

Arkansas saves fragments of the rich but distant past.

“Rocked in the Cradle of Consternation”

Author: Reverend Henry M. Turner

A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65