READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY

Reading, Writing, And History

January 2025

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Bruce Catton

April 1964

14 years ago By admin

Volume

15

Issue

3

The Turning Point Background for Crisis The Lost Opportunity

Stories published from "April 1964"

When Gentlemen Prepared For War

Authored by: Francis Russell

In the summer of 1915, 1,300 blue bloods played soldier for thirty days at Plattsburg. A bully time was had by all—even though it was a far cry from the real thing

The Ordeal Of William Penn

Authored by: Francis Biddle

Long before he founded his Quaker commonwealth in America, he stood up for religious freedom against the awesome power of the Crown—and put the entire English-speaking world in his debt

The Trumpeter Of Doomsday

Authored by: Harold A. Larrabee

William Miller applied good Yankee arithmetic to biblical prophecies and convinced thousands that the hour of Christ’s Second Coming was upon them

Farewell To The Ferry

Authored by: C. Bradford Mitchell

The nation’s waterways, once crisscrossed by countless ferries, are now bridged or tunnelled, and all but a few of the romantic old surface shuttles are, alas, sounding their final whistles and bells

The Operator And The Emperors

Authored by: Lately Thomas

An exile from his own land, ex-Senator William Gwin dreamed of lostmines in Sonora, an Eldorado for unreconstructed Confederates, and a title in Maximilian’s Mexico

Plessy v. Ferguson

Authored by: C. Vann Woodward

The Birth of Jim Crow

“Fill Yourself Up, Clean Your Plate”

Authored by: Archie Robertson

Among the Pennsylvania Dutch, both plain and fancy, the milk is yet, the schnitz-un-gnepp delights the soul, and the soup is thick enough to stand on

The City Of The Living God

Authored by: Francisco LÓpez De GÓmara

From a long-obscure life of Cortés, written by his own secretary, comes a narrative of the incredible splendors of Moctezuma’s Axtec capital