Marquis James on the atmosphere of Dayton, Tennessee, on the eve of the Scopes trial, which ignited the rift between the evolution fundamentalists and modernists, and which received outsized national media coverage.
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July 1-7
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During her years as a Texas schoolteacher, the artist discovered abstraction, Robert M. Coates writes. Then Alfred Stieglitz, at his popular picture gallery, 291 Fifth Avenue, discovered her.
Alva Johnston on the feuds and gang wars among New York’s stevedores and longshoremen.
REPORTER AT LARGE about D Day invasion. Lieutenant Long said that he had seen the commander start off from the ship at a good clip, ran well until he got …
PROFILE of Venice. The Venetian Jew was greatly favored compared to other Jews, in the medieval period. He was allowed to set up loan banks, to trade with …
Wallace White’s 1989 Profile of the marine biologist and explorer Sylvia Earle.