April 1961

To him, said Morse, art had been only “a cruel jilt.” Then Providence found other work for this complex, difficult Yankee

The huge, cloven-footed creature that terrorized southeast Arizona was no figment of the mind. The grisly story of its origin and fate was more macabre in fact than any fiction

A century ago this month began the war that set
These unpublished letters show how one family was bitterly split

Against a background of postwar turmoil, a 28-year-old State Department aide was sent to negotiate with the Bolshevik leaders. His rebuff by Wilson caused a national uproar

The eccentric Timothy Dexter finally found a sympathetic biographer in his fellow townsman, novelist John Marquand

Enraged by losses from their herds a band of respectable cattle barons took the law into their own hands—and barely escaped with their lives

In Toledo a civic crusade matched the popular mayor against a famed evangelist—both with the same name

Philip II’s cédula real evoked from his overseas domains vivid picture-maps of life in Spanish America

How gnarled, upright ex-President John Quincy Adams broke the South’s gag rule in Congress and at last won popular applause

The search for perpetual motion is a tragicomedy of obsessed inventors, an eager faith, and humbug

An Englishman re-examines certain stereotyped attitudes on the American Revolution