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The Victory Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue (Literary Digest, 1919)
1919, Civil War History, The Literary Digest

The Victory Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue
(Literary Digest, 1919)

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Here is a reminiscence of the grand parade following the close of America’s bloody Civil War. It took two days; with the Army of the Potomac marching on the first day followed by General Sherman’s Army of the West on the next. The Grand Review was the brain-child of Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton and was attended by (so it was believed) over one hundred thousand people from the victorious Northern states.


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Golf Goes Yankee (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1922)
1922, Golf History, Vanity Fair Magazine

Golf Goes Yankee
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1922)

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The attached golf article first appeared in a 1922 Vanity Fair titled The Royal and Ancient Game. Penned by golf legend Charles Chick Evans, Jr. (1890 – 1979) it traces the birth of the game and its migration across the sea where the game was heartily welcomed:

Golf seemed a gift from an high. Across the water it came and our best people took it up. They had discovered it in their travels abroad. It is true that poor people played it in Britain, but it seemed very sure that they would not do so in America…


Click here to read about the American cars of 1922.

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Victorian Fashion vs Flapper Fashion
1929, Fashion, The Literary Digest

Turning Back The Fashion Revolution
(Literary Digest, 1929)

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Periodically we run across articles on this subject and it makes us sit up and recognize that this must have been a constant fear for numerous women (and fashion journalists) during the Twenties. Each article centers on a widespread belief that the Deep State behind the fashion industry had plans afoot to force women back into long skirts and corsets and that women would not be allowed any say in the matter.


Click here to read a similar article and here to read our other article on the subject.

Wilbur Wright, R.I.P. (Collier's, 1912)
1912, Aviation History, Collier's Magazine

Wilbur Wright, R.I.P.
(Collier’s, 1912)

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The Collier’s Magazine obituary for Wilbur Wright (1867 – 1912) was written by the aviator and journalist Henry Woodhouse (born Mario Terenzio Casalengo, 1884 – 1970).


The Brothers Wright gave flying instructions to a young boy who would later become one of the first U.S. Air Force generals – you can read about him here…


Click here to read about a much admired American aviator who was attracted to the fascist way of thinking…

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Winston Churchill in 1912 | Winston Churchill in His Thirties
1912, The Saturday Evening Post, Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill: Up-and-Comer
(Saturday Evening Post, 1912)

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He is only thirty-eight now and he is a member of the English Ministry… he has been a wonder of the Empire since he was twenty-five. The only American he can be compared to is [Teddy] Roosevelt; and that comparison is not especially apt, because Churchill writes far better than Roosevelt does, talks far better, and at thirty-eight has gone farther than Roosevelt had when he reached that age… Churchill will undoubtedly be a prime minister of England one of these days.

HG Wells on Winston Churchill 1940 | PM Winston Churchill by HG Wells 1940
1940, Collier's Magazine, Winston Churchill

H.G. Wells on Winston Churchill
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)

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H.G. Wells and Winston Churchill first met in 1901. Churchill was a deep admirer of Well’s fiction, and he eagerly pursued a friendship. The two enjoyed a spirited exchange of letters that went on for decades – although it seemed to have taken a hit in the Twenties when the two disagreed on the nascent USSR – but their friendship was not seriously shaken. In this 1940 article, Wells stepped up to tell American readers how fortunate Britons are to have such a man of discernment standing at the helm:

I will confess I have never felt so disposed to stand by a man through thick and thin as I do now in regard to him. And I think that, in writing that, I write for a very great number of my fellow countrymen who have hitherto felt frustrated and fragmentary amidst the rush of events.

African-American Soldier Arrested for Treason 1942 |
1942, African-American Service, PM Tabloid

‘White Man’s War”
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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During the winter of 1942, Private Harry Carpenter, U.S Army, made a big honking mistake when he decided to declare that the current war was a white man’s war. Arrested by the MPs and carted-off to stand before Magistrate Thomas O’Hara, Carpenter found that he had reaped the whirlwind: he was charged with treason against the United States.

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The W.W. I Plays of the Post-War Years (Stage Magazine, 1933)
1933, Stage Magazine, Writing

The W.W. I Plays of the Post-War Years
(Stage Magazine, 1933)

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A look at What Price Glory? and Journey’s End and the new spirit that created these dramas.

When R.C. Sheriff, nearly ten years after the Armistice, sat down to write an easy play for the amateurs of his boat club, he seems to have had no fixed notion as to what a play ought to be. The script of Journey’s End shows a complete absence of strain…


Click here to read an additional article concerning Journeys End.

reaction to introduction of 1st television broadcast
1937, Early Television, The Delineator Magazine

Seeing the ”Wonder Machine” for the First Time…
(Delineator Magazine, 1937)

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This is one of the most enjoyable early television articles: an eye-witness account of one the first T.V. broadcasts from the R.C.A. Building in New York City during the November of 1936. The viewing was set up strictly for members of the American press corps and the excitement of this one journalist clearly could not be contained:

In the semi-darkness we sat in tense silence waiting to see the premiere demonstration of television… Television! What would it be like?

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1861 NY Times Dispatches from Charleston | 1861 NY Times Civil War Begins Articles
1861, Civil War History

The War Begins
(NY Times, 1861)

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The ball has opened. War is inaugurated. The batteries of Sullivan’s Island, Morris Island and other points were opened on Fort Sumpter at 4 ‘oclock this morning… The answer to General Beauregard’s demand by Major Anderson was that he would surrender when his supplies were exhausted, that is, if he was not reinforced.


Here are the dispatches from Charleston that appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 13, 1861.

The Abortion Racket (Sir! Magazine, 1954)
1954, Abortion, Sir! Magazine

The Abortion Racket
(Sir! Magazine, 1954)

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A hard-charging investigative reporter from Sir! magazine exposed the morbid aspects of the abortion racket in this 1951 article that reported on the money-loving quack doctors who were responsible for killing 50,000 women each year in back-alley abortions; equally shocking was his report on the slaughter of half a million American babies throughout the country in 1954.

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Battle of Guadalcanal News Report | Operation Watchtower Report 1942
1942, Newsweek, World War Two

Guadalcanal
(Newsweek Magazine, 1942)

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The Battle of Guadalcanal (August 7, 1942 – February 9, 1943) was the first major land offensive by Allied forces against the Japanese. When this article went to press, the American military presence on the island was exactly one month old; it was at this point that the Marines sought to outmaneuver the enemy by conducting an additional amphibious landing on the north side of the island where They found that except for a few snipers, the Japanese had scampered to the hills.

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