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Mr. Singer’s Money Machine
In 1951, The Saturday Evening Post told the story of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, which deployed thousands of salesmen across the globe to sell their time-saving devices.
In a Word: What’s so Radical about Radishes?
A look at the etymology of both ‘radish’ and ‘radical’ will take you back to the roots of math, philosophy, and botany.
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The Imprudent Promise of Plastics
The American “throwaway lifestyle” didn’t come about by chance; it was a calculated strategy to sell more plastics.
True Grit vs. The Wild Bunch: The Week of Peak Western
Released one week apart 50 years ago, True Grit and The Wild Bunch highlighted a genre at its peak while on the brink of change.
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The Civil War
More on the Civil WarThe Harrowing Story of the Civil War’s Refugees
The Saturday Evening Post captured this 1864 firsthand report of the devastation wrought by the war on the civilian population.
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The Civil War: One Woman’s Ordeal
A Union officer’s wife tells how she was captured, reviled, imprisoned, and then returned to her home — only to be confronted by a band of marauding Confederate cavalrymen.
Civil War Memory: “I Saw Lee Surrender”
An 18-year-old bugler with the Union Army tells what he saw at Appomattox during the truce ending the Civil War.
American Civil War Atrocity: The Andersonville Prison Camp
Of the 45,000 Union soldiers who’d been held at Andersonville Confederate prison during the American Civil War, 13,000 died. During the worst months, 100 men died each day from malnutrition, exposure to the elements, and communicable disease.
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