Essays

Title Author Issue
Did The North Pole Wander?
 Editors, The April 1960
Footprints Of The Great Ice
 Andrist, Ralph April 1960
Children Of The Young Republic
 Clay, George April 1960
The Coal Kings Come To Judgment
 Reynolds, Robert April 1960
One-Shot War With England
 Magnuson, Warren April 1960
The Long Drive
 Case, Perry April 1960
The Moving Image
 Gessner, Robert April 1960
The Fearless Frogman
 Lyon, Peter April 1960
Russians In California
 Temko, Allan April 1960
Reading, Writing, And History
 Catton, Bruce April 1960
Miss Knight Abroad
 Levin, Alexandra April 1960
The Revolution’s Caine Mutiny
 Morris, Richard April 1960
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Grant At Shiloh
 Catton, Bruce February 1960
The Redskin Who Saved The White Man’s Hide
 Reynolds, Sidney February 1960
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
Soldier in a Longboat
 Billias, George February 1960
The Harvard Man In The Kremlin Wall
 Wolfe, Bertram February 1960
How Wilbur Wright Taught Europe To Fly
 Gibbs-smith, Charles February 1960
America & Russia
 Editors, The February 1960
Journey Into Our Times
 Acheson, Dean February 1960
“Échec!”
 Wittenberg, Ernest February 1960
"As I Am Now So You Must Be”
 Sandrof, Ivan February 1960
“General” Eaton And His Improbable Legion
 Hale, William February 1960
The Big Pay-off
 February 1960
The Town That Stopped The Clock
 Phillips, Cabell February 1960
The Money-maker
 Linscott, Robert February 1960
Hawaii Before The Missionaries
 February 1960
“The Isles Shall Wait For His Law”
 Smith, Bradford February 1960
The Ultimate Judge
 February 1960
Toys: A Parade From The American Past
 December 1959
The "Delicious" Land
 Rowse, A. December 1959
Mark Twain In Hartford: The Happy Years
 Twain, Mark December 1959
Some Maxims Of Mark Twain
 Editors, The December 1959
The Boodling Boss And The Musical Mayor
 Bliven, Bruce December 1959
Sacco-Vanzetti: The Unfinished Debate
 Wayman, Dorothy December 1959
The Front Porch Campaign
 Leech, Margaret December 1959
The Pepys Of The Old Dominion
 Fishwick, Marshall December 1959
A “wildernes As God First Made It”
 December 1959
When Congress Tried To Rule
 Lomask, Milton December 1959
The $24 Swindle
 Benchley, Nathaniel December 1959
The “American Woodsman”
 Davidson, Marshall December 1959
For King Or Congress
 Pratt, John December 1959
The Battle That Won An Empire
 Liddell Hart, Basil December 1959
Quebec Under The Gun
 December 1959
Model For Correct Acceptance Of A Proposal
 December 1959
Reading, Writing, And History
 December 1959
What War Destroys
 Catton, Bruce December 1959
Excess Of Caution
 Catton, Bruce December 1959
The Great Incalculable
 Catton, Bruce December 1959
Who Is Superior?
 Catton, Bruce August 1959
Mr. Dooley Looks At History
 August 1959