April 1965

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POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY
READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY
Features
On a government surveying party in the Pacific Northwest eighty-five years ago, nothing was more valuable than a sense of humor. Topographer Alfred Downing had one that happily showed in his sketches
"My God, it talks!” said the Emperor of Brazil. So the new invention did—but not until Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant had solved some brain racking problems
To become a successful local hero, get a good biographer and outlive your detractors
The furnaces were cooled, and Carnegie’s great steel plant stood empty—but dawn would bring one of the bloodiest labor-management struggles in U.S. history
Had there been a Warren Commission exactly a century ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot, its report might have read like the somber, moving, and impressively researched book from which the following narrative is taken.
George Catlin painted a moving portrait of friend Joseph Chadwick just before his friend's untimely death in the Texas Revolution
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