February 1973

Volume 24 , Issue 2
February 1973

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POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History
Bernard A. Weisberger

Features

Who Really Elects The Presidents?
D. M. Marshman, Jr.
Encounter at the Brandywine

“The damn rebels form well”

Richard F. Snow
“Gems of Symmetry and Convenience”

So Richmond proudly described its electric trolleys, the first truly successful system in the world

William D. Middleton
The New Teacher

DRAWN FOR AMERICAN HERITAGE BY LITNESS

Curtis Harnack
The Taking Of California

A low comedy for high stakes:

T. H. Watkins
The Hopi Way

Isolation ends for “the People of Peace”

Alvin M. Josephy Jr.
A Man’s Life
Oscar And The Opera

AN IMPRESARIO NAMED HAMMERSTEIN SET HIS SIGHTS ON TUMBLING AN INSTITUTION CALLED THE MET

Ruth Hume
The Kentucky Rifle As Art
Bubble, Bubble No— Toil, No Trouble

The brisk little Italian immigrant promised you 100 per cent interest in ninety days. Some people actually got it

Francis Russell
The Notorious Affair Of Mrs. Reynolds
Robert C. Alberts
“Well, What Are You Going To Do About It?”

Thus Boss Richard Croker breezily dismissed charges of corruption. But the fortune he made from “honest graft” was not enough to buy him what he most wanted

Rita Kramer
With All Deliberate Speed

Behind-the-scenes records reveal how the Supreme Court reached its fateful desegregation decisions

Liva Baker

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