Middle Passage
Packed like animals in the holds of slave ships, Negroes bound for America were prey to disease, brutal masters, and their own suicidal melancholy.Daniel P. MannixMalcolm CowleyFebruary 1962Long before...
View Article“Better For Us To Be Separated”
For some men the only solution to the dilemma of blacks and whites together was for the blacks to go back where they came fromMichael HarwoodDecember 1972When, on August 14, 1862, President Abraham...
View ArticleThe Making Of An American Lion
A Welsh waif adopted a new country and a new name and then became—thanks to a New York newspaper—the most famous African explorer of his timeTimothy SeverinFebruary 1974On Sunday, December 8, 1872,...
View ArticleThe Great African Safari Bust
OR HOW THE BOY SCOUTS CAME TO AMERICAHarriet Hughes CrowleyApril 1975Africa was part of my childhood. The attic in our Detroit home smelled like a zoo. There were lion, leopard, zebra, antelope, and...
View ArticleTaking Sides In The Boer War
The United States remained officially neutral, but many Americans fought alongside both opposing armies and several became legendary heroesByron FarwellApril 1976“I have been absorbed in interest in...
View ArticleWhen I Landed The War Was Over
A veteran news correspondent recalls his days as a spotter plane pilotHughes RuddOctober/november 1981The idea is simple and sound and goes back at least to the American Civil War: to direct artillery...
View ArticleCasablanca
Desperate improvisations in the face of imminent disaster saw us through the early years of the fight. They also gave us the war’s greatest movie.Edward SorelDecember 1991America’s favorite World War...
View Article“That Hell-hole Of Yours”
In 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Britain’s poorest, most dismal African colony, and what he saw there fired him with a fervor that helped found the United NationsDonald WrightOctober...
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