August/September 1979

Peale’s Greatest Triumph

The Messiah of Time and Motion

So read a welcoming sign over the door of Charles Willson Peale’s great ill-fated museum

The Brief, Sentimental Age of the Rural Cemetery

The single greatest medical discovery of the last century began as a parlor game, and brought tragedy to nearly everyone who had a hand in it

Nobody was murdered or maimed, but nobody backed down for twenty years in the struggle over school integration in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Who finally won?