April 1971

on the Writing of History

CONSERVATION

Concerning the long life, fast times, and astonishing fecundity of Man o’ War

A few days after Lindberg's crossing, the second flight across the Atlantic carried the first passenger and was lucky to make it to Germany.

What was it like to actually be there in April, 1775?
This is how the participants, American and British, remembered it

The celebrated novelist and historian John Dos Passos wrote a prose poem about the visit that Albert Einstein paid to Charles Steinmetz, the "The Wizard of Schenectady."

Year by year the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic grew thinner — but until the last old soldier was gone, Decoration Day in a New England town was a moving memorial to “the War”

Army newspapers in World Wars I and II were unofficial, informal, and more than the top brass could handle