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President-Elect Eisenhower Visit to Korea 1952 | I Will Go to Korea
1952, Quick Magazine, The Korean War

Eisenhower Goes to Korea
(Quick Magazine, 1952)

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After trouncing Adlai Stevenson in the November Election, President-Elect Eisenhower made good on the vow he had made earlier and packed his bag for a fact-finding trip to the stagnant front lines on the Korean Peninsula.

No abrupt change in Korea is likely to follow Ike’s visit. He doesn’t plan to negotiate with the Reds there. He is interested in training, equipping and preparing South Koreans to defend themselves… The South Korean’s morale is good. About 400,000 of them are mobilized.

H.L. Mencken on American English (The Smart Set, 1921)
1921, American English, The Smart Set

H.L. Mencken on American English
(The Smart Set, 1921)

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Culture critic H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956; author of The American Language reviewed American Englishstyle=border:none by Gilbert M. Tucker.

The fact is, of course, that American English is noticeably superior to British English in several important respects, and that not the least of these superiorities lies in the learned department of spelling. Here even the more intelligent Englishmen are against their own rules, and in favor of the American rules, and every year one notices a greater tendency among them to spell wagon with one g instead of two…The English -our ending, the main hallmark of English spelling, dies harder.

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Back-Handed Compliments for D.W. Griffith (Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1948)
1948, D.W. Griffith, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

Back-Handed Compliments for D.W. Griffith
(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1948)

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This 1940s Hollywood journalist refrained from using the pejorative white cracker while condemning silent film director D.W. Griffith for his racial views -and yet at the same time did something rather bold in that he put in print his views that the man has been erroneously credited as the creator of various assorted film innovations that were pioneered by other filmmakers.

Tested in War: the Wrist Watch Becomes Fashionable (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, Stars and Stripes Archive, The Stars and Stripes

How the Furnace of War Made the Wristwatch a Masculine Fashion Accessory
(The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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The following article must have been penned as a result of some sort of creative writing project for one of the many bored World War One Doughboys waiting for the boat home. The article spells out how the necessities of modern war demanded that the wrist watch no longer be thought of as a piece of jewelery adorned only by fops and fems and evolved into a useful tool for soldiers on the field. The column makes clear that prior the Great War, any man who dared to accessorize themselves with a watch was immediately suspect and likely to have their noses broken.

The T-shirt also had a military origin. Click here to read the article

•Read an article about the history of Brooks Brothers•

The Young Nancy Reagan (Modern Screen, 1951)
1951, Hollywood History, Modern Screen

The Young Nancy Reagan
(Modern Screen, 1951)

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Published in a Hollywood fan magazine some months prior to her engagement with Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) was this 1951 profile of the actress Nancy Davis (born Anne Frances Robbins: 1921 – 2016). A gossipy yet informative article that covers her days at Smith College, her relationship with capitol H Hollywood stars Alla Nazimova and Walter Houston, the eight films in which she had acted in up to that time and the various assorted reactions she instilled in such directors as William Wellman and Dore Schary.


A 1942 article by the young Ronald Reagan can be read here…

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Football's First Half-Century (Coronet Magazine, 1953)
1953, Coronet Magazine, Football History

Football’s First Half-Century
(Coronet Magazine, 1953)

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No one is certain how football came to America. There are those who say it has always been here in the guise of an Indian game like lacrosse; its resemblance to English Rugby is apparent. But the game we know today is uniquely American, its place on the American scene secures. From September until long after the snow falls, Saturday afternoon means the Big Game to millions; and to millions the names of Heffelfinger, Grange, Harmon, Kazmaier and other gridiron greats will never lose their luster. This year [1953], more than 15,000,000 Americans – old grads, subway alumni and just plain football fans – will turn out to see their favorites do battle in a game that bears little resemblance to the scrambling, uncoordinated melees of 50 years ago. This is the story of how football grew up, of its heroes, and of the great games of yesteryear.

The First Five Year Plan (The Literary Digest, 1933)
1933, Soviet History, The Literary Digest

The First Five Year Plan
(The Literary Digest, 1933)

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A 1933 magazine article that reported on the success of the Soviet Union’s first (of many) Five Year Plans.


The myriad five year economic development plans dreamed-up by the assorted butchers of the dear dead Soviet Union all had one thing in common that was never lost on the Russian people: they always involved the construction of new factories, but never the construction of new housing.


Additional magazine and newspaper articles about the Cold War may be read on this page.

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Sonia Shankman O School in Chicago | Pioneers in Autistic Education
1950, Education, Pathfinder Magazine

‘The O School”
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

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The Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School in Chicago turned some heads when it first opened. As you read the attached column you will learn about the unorthodox approach they bring to the subject of educating the autistic and the emotionally disturbed. With the fullness of time it has been revealed that they must be doing something right – it has been in business since 1944.

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American Trucks & Armored Cars (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1916)
1916, Inventions and Weapons, Vanity Fair Hall of Fame

Armored Cars and Trucks
(Vanity Fair, 1916)

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The American trucks and armored cars pictured here were not created specifically for the Great War, but no doubt they were sold to the French and British; a year later these trucks arrived with the A.E.F.. The bull dog that has for so long adorned the hood of the Mack truck dates to this conflict -the bull dog was the nick-name bestowed upon that vehicle by the Tommies.

Recognizing the importance of armored vehicles, a group of American Millionaires, among them Henry Clay Frick (1849 – 1919), pooled their money and donated a number of such items to the New York National Guard. Vanity Fair Magazine followed this story and produced this article as it developed with a thorough review of each of the donated military vehicles. Although the trucks are photographed, few are named.

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Franklin D Roosevelt Third Term Election Magazine Article
1940, F.D.R., Pathfinder Magazine

FDR’s Third Term: Vox Populi
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1940)

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Here are the results of PATHFINDER MAGAZINE‘s 1940 poll concerning FDR’s controversial run for a third term. The pollsters were interested in discovering the voter’s thoughts on the third term as a concept for future presidents – rather than gaining a better understanding as to the popularity of President Roosevelt.


The poll considered the opinions of citizens who voted for FDR in 1936 and those who sided with Republican Alf Landon in the same election. They concluded that 68.6% of poll’s participants were against a third presidential term.

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