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Perhaps no other pilot personifies the carefree days of aviation’s Golden Age better than Roscoe Turner. During the 1920s and ’30s—when aviators routinely risked their lives wing-walking, racing, breaking records and pushing the limits of their aircraft and themselves—his aerial escapades and penchant for self-promotion continually kept him in the public eye. Jimmy Doolittle, one …
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As American as Modern ArchitectureHarry McCawley looks and sounds like a small-town character, in the best tradition. “It billed itself as the world’s fastest growing newspaper,” he recalled of his employer, The Re… Read MoreOil RushAt either Titusville or Oil City the stranger finds himself in a new world. The objects which he is too apt to touch, in spite of all precautions, have a greasy, clammy feel. His n… Read MoreThe Wild OnesSeminoles were wary of the white man—and his camera— so they hid for decades in the Everglades. The Spanish of La Florida called every native they encountered cimarrón—runaway, wil… Read More6 Million MulesHow we ran the nation before it became mechanized. Here is the history of the American mule in numbers. In 1786, there were zero—at least none on record in the new United States. I… Read MoreThomas Jefferson, Slave MasterNew research casts the founding father in a different light. WHEN THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE, a hero of the American Revolution, returned for a triumphal tour of the United States in… Read More
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