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1979

Stories Published in this Year

Calls Party Policy a “Chastened, Weary, and Disillusioned Liberalism”

Lighting Up America

Her life preservers weighted with scrap-iron, her lifeboats mere decoration, the excursion steamer General Slocum left New York’s Third Street pier at 9:30 on the morning of June 15,1904, with thirteen-hundred picknickers bound for a Long Island beach. Less than an hour later, she was afire.

Sorry No Gas | October/November 1979 (Volume: 30, Issue: 6)

How Americans Met the First Great Gasoline Crisis—Nearly Forty Years Ago

THE BLACK SLAVE DRIVER

Buffalo | October/November 1979 (Volume: 30, Issue: 6)

Piskiou,Vaches Sauvages, Buffler, Prairie Beeves—

Ten-hut! | October/November 1979 (Volume: 30, Issue: 6)

WRITE YOUR MOTHER

My Dear Park | October/November 1979 (Volume: 30, Issue: 6)

THE WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN

The single greatest medical discovery of the last century began as a parlor game, and brought tragedy to nearly everyone who had a hand in it

Calm Dwellings | August/September 1979 (Volume: 30, Issue: 5)

The Brief, Sentimental Age of the Rural Cemetery

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