READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

January 2025

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Bruce Catton

October 1962

14 years ago By admin

Volume

13

Issue

6

A Haunted Half-World— … and the Fight to Own It

Stories published from "October 1962"

The Electoral College: Does It Choose The Best Man?

Authored by: Harry Louis Selden

It nearly Put Burr in the saddle in 1800
It failed to confirm the people’s choice in 1824, 1876, and 1888
It could have ditched Kennedy in 1960

The Dark World Of David Gilmour Blythe

Authored by: James Thomas Flexner

In an age when art radiated nothing hut light and optimism, this self-taught painter from Pittsburgh saw another, more somber side of American life

"So Ends The Great Rebel Army…”

Authored by: Bruce Catton

To Union Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, Lincoln was a weak President, Grant an uninspired commander, Lee a slippery foe. His outspoken diary, never published before, memorably describes the Civil War’s final year

The Farm Boy And The Angel

Authored by: Carl Carmer

Of sensitive, mystical Joseph Smith, of a heavenly visitor and a buried scripture, and of the founding of a new religion destined to enlist many followers and carve from the desert a new Zion

The Pilgrims and The Rock

Authored by: Francis Russell

Did the Fathers in 1620 really land on that famous slab of granite? Through the haze of myth that surround it, a profound truth may be dimly seen

A Sword For George Rogers Clark

Authored by: Walter Havighurst

Far from the war’s main currents, a resourceful Virginian set off down the swift Ohio to win its strategic valley for the cause ofindependence

Wish You Were Here

Authored by: Sander Davidson

Home, Mother, and the Flag; humor, pathos, and bathos; the lost look of Main Street fifty years ago, in the heyday of the horse and trolley—the old picture post card preserves it all

READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

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