Articles from 1913
Theodore Roosevelt had loomed large in Washington for a long time – so when it was learned that his nephew, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a Democrat!), was chosen to work in Woodrow Wilson’s Department of the Navy he was an instant curiosity.
Click here to read a 1913 article about another young man on the move: Winston Churchill.
The Up-and-Coming FDR (The Saturday Evening Post, 1913) Read More »
A report from The New York Times stated that, relative to the population, 1912 saw a drop in the number of lynchings. Included in this brief is a record of lynchings that occurred between the years 1885 – 1912.-from Amazon:
The Lynching Records: 1885 – 1912 (NY Times, 1913) Read More »
A child could do that has been one of the most common utterances in response to the avant-garde movements of modern art. This short article reflects that view and was written in response to the New York Armory Show, which at that time, was attracting a good deal of attention in the press. The Armory Show is well-remembered today as the first art exhibition to introduce European-style modernism to the people (and artists) of that city. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), as the co-creator of Cubism, is among those lampooned, as is Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968) for his painting, A Nude Descending the Staircase.
The Lampooning of Picasso (Literary Digest, 1913) Read More »
During the Battle of Gettysburg’s fiftieth anniversary celebration that took place during the summer 1913, a surviving member of Virginia’s Fifty-Sixth Regiment of Infantry encountered the Federal soldier who had saved his life at the Bloody Angle; this is the moving story of their encounter.
Reunion at Gettysburg’s Bloody Angle (Literary Digest, 1913) Read More »
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank encountered each other once again – fifty years after the Union victory at Gettysburg:
The conductor raised his baton and the strains of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ floated out upon the air. All of those gathered upon the dusky lawn – the Picketts, the Longstreets, the daughter of General A.P. Hill, the Meades, the long row of men in gray and gold – became silent, rose to their feet, and uncovered. That was Gettysburg fifty years afterward.
Click here to see the Confederate Uniform worn at the Reunions.
Reunion at Gettysburg (The Outlook, 1913) Read More »
This essay clearly states why the Battle of Gettysburg is a significant event in Civil War history, what the Rebels intended and why the battle was such a decisive victory for the Federal Army:
In the first rush the Confederates were successful, the scattered Union regiments under General Hancock were pressed back. But on the second day, the main body of the Northern army under General Meade arrived, and the contest held even, with awful slaughter on both sides. The third day the Confederates made one last desperate charge…
A Summation of the Battle of Gettysburg (Famous Events Magazine, 1913) Read More »
I 1913 Presbyterian preacher Billy Sunday (1862 – 1935) was, without a doubt, one of the most visible advocates for the successful implementation of any federal legislation that would outlaw liquor across America. When it became clear to many that Prohibition was causing far more problems than it solved, he continued to strongly support the legislation, and after its repeal in 1933 the Preacher called for its reinstatement.
Billy Sunday Campaign Trail for Prohibition (Literary Digest, 1913) Read More »
The author argues that Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was neither an atheist or an Episcopalian or a Unitarian, as many have claimed. However, his fertile mind was not entirely devoid of any religious conviction but rather his views on theology were totally undigested and lacking in order and consistency. It is an interesting piece about one of America’s most fascinating Presidents concerning a topic that keeps coming up again and again.
Jefferson’s Bible is one of the ‘curiosities of literature’. This book, called by him, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth was published by congress in 1904.
(The article can be printed: which is good because the pages are out of order; sorry for the inconvenience.)
The historian Henry Steele Commager ranked Thomas Jefferson at number 14 insofar as his impact on the American mind was concerned – click here to understand his reasoning…
The Religious Opinions of Thomas Jefferson (Sewanee Review, 1913) Read More »
Presbyterian preacher Billy Sunday (William Ashley Sunday, 1862 – 1935) was, without a doubt, one of the leading figures advocating for the adoption of Prohibition in 1919. When it became clear to many that Prohibition was causing far more problems than it solved, he continued to strongly support the legislation, and after its repeal in 1933, the Preacher called for its reinstatement.
Billy Sunday in Columbus, Ohio (The Literary Digest, 1913) Read More »
Bertram Goodhue (1869 – 1924) was a popular American architect who was highly praised for his mastery of the Gothic Revival style of architecture, which won him many of the finest commissions that society had to offer any architect during the high-water mark of the WASP ascendancy.
This article appeared in The Literary Digest just as his design for St. Thomas Church on New York’s Fifth Avenue was nearing completion and he shared with the journalist his insights as to how he designs churches:
Sometimes, of course, the cloistral effect is needed, in a monastery, for instance. And the church must always have solemnity, but not coldness. I have tried in my work to express this quality of invitation, together with sanctity and a degree of magnificence quite undreamed of in my craftsman days.
Bertram G. Goodhue on Church Architecture (Literary Digest, 1913) Read More »
