POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

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August/september 1983

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Volume

34

Issue

5

GEORGE WASHINGTON, LANDLORD BASEBALL BEFORE DOUBLEDAY HOW TO MAKE A PRESSMAN’S HAT DID YOU ONCE SEE STELLA PLAIN?

Stories published from "August/september 1983"

A Short History Of Heart Surgery

Authored by: William A. Nolen

“A wound in the heart is mortal,” Hippocrates said two thousand years ago. Until very recently he was right.

Age Of The Octagon

Authored by: The Editors

A HERITAGE PRESERVED
The brief mid-nineteenth-century popularity of eight-sided houses has left us a strange and delightful architectural legacy

Mr. McClure and Willa

Authored by: Phyllis C. Robinson

They could hardly have been more temperamentally incompatible, but the Midwestern writer Willa Cather and the crusading editor S. S. McClure enjoyed a splendid working relationship for six years and a lifetime of mutual respect

The Gun The Army Can’t Kill

Authored by: Peter Andrews

“I don’t want this thing often,” one soldier said of his .45 automatic pistol, “but when I do, I want it damned bad.”

Digging Up The U.S.

Authored by: Robert Friedman

In the underpinnings of our cities, in desolate swampland, beneath coastal waters—wherever the early settlers left traces of their lives—a new generation of archaeologists is uncovering a lost world

“Explaining What You Are After Is The Secret Of Diplomacy”

Authored by: Robert Bendiner

This century’s most powerful Secretary of State talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the Foreign Service, the role of the CIA, the rights of journalists, the contrast between meddlers and statesmen—and about the continuing struggle for a coherent foreign policy

R. G. Fiege, Circus Painter

Authored by: The Editors

Using the same bold colors that drew the rubes in to see the Giant Rat of Sumatra and the Three-Headed Calf, he painted a fanciful record of his world

The Witch & We, The People

Authored by: Edmund S. Morgan

Did the fifty-five statesmen meeting in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention know that a witch-hunt was taking place while they deliberated? Did they care?

Radio Grows Up

Authored by: Alice Goldfarb Marquis

How the novelty item of 1920 became the world-straddling colossus of 1940

Hobo Nickels

Authored by: Delma K. Romines

One of America’s least-known and most curious folk arts