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December 1982

12 years ago By admin

Volume

34

Issue

1

MONUMENTAL ERROR THE SECOND DESK SOLDIER’S STORY

Stories published from "December 1982"

The Wealth Of The Nation

Authored by: Adam Smith

The most influential economist in the United States talks about prudence, productivity, and the pursuit of liquidity in the light of the past

Two Cheers For Optimism

Authored by: Robert Bendiner

One man measures his life-span against the length of recorded history and finds tidings of comfort and hope

What If?

Authored by: Marcus Cunliffe

Conjectural or speculative history can be a silly game, as in “What if the Roman legions had machine guns?” But this historian argues that to enlarge our knowledge and understanding it sometimes makes very good sense to ask …

Angel In The Parlor: The Art Of Abbott Thayer

Authored by: Ross Anderson

He loved women so much he painted wings on them. After years of neglect, he is now being appreciated.

Winter Of The Yalu

Authored by: James Dill

A soldier remembers the freezing, fearful retreat down the Korean Peninsula after the Chinese armies smashed across the border

A Postage Stamp History Of The U.S. In The Twentieth Century

Authored by: Judson Mead

Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think

Chopin Called Him “The King Of Pianists”

Authored by: Peter Andrews

But was Louis Moreau Gottschalk America’s first musical genius or simply the purveyor of sentimental claptrap?

If You’ve Got An Ounce Of Feeling, Hallmark Has A Ton Of Sentiment

Authored by: James Mckinley

How the colossus of the “social expression industry” always manages to say it better than you do

Family Platters

Authored by: Joan Paterson Kerr

From Germany and Switzerland, farmer-potters transplanted their skills to Pennsylvania and produced a distinctive ceramic found nowhere else in America

Southern Women & The Indispensable Myth

Authored by: Shirley Abbott

How the mistress of the plantation became a slave

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