October 1976

Volume 27 , Issue 6
October 1976

Departments

AMERICAN CHARACTERS: JOE HILL

Joe Hill
Richard F. Snow

POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

READERS’ ALBUM

Dusty Rabbit Run

Features

Crossword In History
The Sweet Grass Lives On
Jamake Highwater
Thomas Jefferson’s Unknown Grandchildren

A STUDY IN HISTORICAL SILENCES

Fawn M. Brodie
Dark Carnival

THE DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION OF FLOYD COLLINS

Michael Lesy
On Electing a President

A former British ambassador and noted historian explains why "hard-headed self-possessed Americans go so wild with excitement at election times"

James Bryce
The Way I See It

Remembering Samuel Eliot Morrison

Bruce Catton
The 93 Years Of Eubie Blake
Max Morath
The Strange Affair Of The Taking Of The Panama Canal Zone

What happened at 6:40 p.m., November 18, 1903?

Bernard A. Weisberger
The Gossipy Art Of Louis Larsen
Pronounce It “callaradda,” Son
Grace Lichtenstein
Porn In Philly, 1912
The Man Behind Columbus

But didn’t Columbus discover America all by himself? And who were the Pinzóns anyway? Good questions—and not one American in ten thousand probably knows the correct answers.

Edward T. Stone

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