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April/May 1982

14 years ago By admin

Volume

33

Issue

3

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Stories published from "April/May 1982"

Electra Webb And Her American Past

Authored by: Walter Karp

How a brave and gifted woman defied her parents and her background to create the splendid collection that is Shelburne

Bernardo De Gálvez

Authored by: Thomas Fleming

The Revolution might have ended much differently for the Americans if it weren’t for their ally, the Spanish governor of Louisiana, who helped them wrestle the Mississippi valley from the British.

History And The Imagination

Authored by: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Ragtime and Reds

Historical Fiction

Authored by: James A. Michener

Our most popular practitioner of the art speaks of the challenges and rewards of writing

“shut The Goddam Plant!”

Authored by: Stephen W. Sears

The great sit-down strike that transformed American industry

Making History

Authored by: Bernard A. Weisberger

An Interview With Theodore H. White

An Interview With John Huston

Authored by: Joseph E. Persico

The Dean of American Movie Men at Seventy-Five

A Heritage Preserved

Authored by: T. H. Watkins

Fort Adobe

Let Slip The Bats And Balloons Of War…

Authored by: The Editors

The Strangest Secret Weapons of World War II

I. The Fu-go Project

Authored by: Carmine A. Prioli

A bomb-laden balloon from Japan reached North America, resulting in the only death from enemy action during the war.

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