Essays

Title Author Issue
The Great Rail Road War of 1877
 Dickson, Paul February/March 1978
She Couldn’t Have Done It, Even If She Did
 Jacob, Kathryn February/March 1978
The Way I See It
 Catton, Bruce February/March 1978
The Levys of Monticello
 Prager, Annabelle February/March 1978
Marking Time
 Watkins, T. February/March 1978
“God Guns & Guts Made America Free”
 Mitchell, John February/March 1978
Hang Down Your Head, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, Or Jose Maria Martin, Or Jose Maniah, Or Jose Maria Martinez, Or …
 February/March 1978
The American Farm
 Rhodes, Richard February/March 1978
The Mississippi Bubble
 Halliday, E. February/March 1978
Funny Hats And Real Guns
 February/March 1978
Gearing Up For Number Three
 February/March 1978
Herpetological Notes Fromarizona
 February/March 1978
Postscripts
 February/March 1978
Publish And Perish?
 February/March 1978
Bitgood Power
 February/March 1978
Headin’ for the (Almost) Last Roundup
 Watkins, T. February/March 1978
‘A Continuity Of Place And Blood”
 Gusewelle, C. December 1977
American Characters
 Watkins, T. December 1977
Let’s Make A Deal
 December 1977
Under Fire In Cuba
 December 1977
“im A Born Optimist”
 Gorey, Hays December 1977
The Beautiful Sound
 Catton, Bruce December 1977
The American World Was Not Made For Me
 Flexner, James December 1977
A 1783 Monument To American Independence Makes Sense-but In Yorkshire, England?
 Beresford, Maurice December 1977
From Austerlitz To Moscow
 Mack, Charles December 1977
The Great Locomotive Chase
 Sears, Stephen December 1977
“full Speed Ahead And Damn The Tomorrows”
 Billington, Ray December 1977
Who Was This Man-and Why Did He Paint Such Terrible Things About Us?
 Bongartz, Roy December 1977
Mighty, Like A Rose
 December 1977
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Gets Hers… Back
 December 1977
How To Repair A Broken Gargoyle
 December 1977
Through A Veil, Darkly
 December 1977
White Man Speaks With Forked Caption
 December 1977
Benedict Arnold Gets His
 December 1977
Postscripts
 December 1977
A Friend In Need
 October 1977
Samuel Eliot Morison Award
 October 1977
Selling The Swedish Nightingale
 Hume, Ruth October 1977
“I Am Become Death…”
 Rhodes, Richard October 1977
When New York Feared The French
 October 1977
The Lost Battalion
 McCarthy, Joe October 1977
American Characters
 Hamilton, William October 1977
Marks For The Marketplace
 Carson, Gerald October 1977
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Of Human Rights… And Wrongs
 Catton, Bruce October 1977
Spalding’s Austrian Baseball Tour.
 October 1977
Temples of Democracy
 Trillin, Calvin October 1977
The Time Of The Angel
 Moser, Don October 1977
“Just What In The Hell Has Gone Wrong Here Anyhow?” Woody Guthrie and the American Dream
 Turner, Frederick October 1977
Ursus Horribilis In Extremis
 mitchell, John October 1977
Solving The Energy Crisis
 October 1977