Postscripts

January 2025

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SOMEONE THERE WAS WHO DIDN’T LOVE A WALL YES, HE COULD THE GUNS OF FEBRUARY/MARCH OH, FOR THE DOUGHS OF YESTERYEAR A GLIMPSE IN THE MIRROR

Stories published from "August/September 1978"

Authored by: Scott Blakey

The Story Behind the Picture That Shocked America

Authored by: The Editors

A new book presents uncommon portraits of our past from the photographic archives of the Library of Congress

The Colonial Status—Past and Present—of the Great American West

Authored by: Spencer Klaw

The ups and downs of the invention that forever altered the American skyline

For more than two centuries, this tiny island fortress was both “the key and the door” to empire

A Union seaman’s nightmarish memories of shot, shell, and shoal waters in Grant’s Mississippi River campaign, 1862–63

Authored by: Frank Kintrea

An exclusive preserve of New York’s social elite —its rise, its flourishing years, and its slide into genteel decline

How a Crash Program Developed an Efficient Oral Contraceptive in Less Than a Decade

Authored by: Wendy Murphy

The Garden Club of America-once the diversion of leisured ladies—is now a vigorous environmental league