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Albert Einstein Magazine Interview (Literary Digest, 1935)
1935, Albert Einstein, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Albert Einstein Magazine Interview (Literary Digest, 1935)

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A year and a half after departing Germany, Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) vogued it up for the cameras at a meeting for the scientific community in Pennsylvania where he answered three very basic questions concerning his research.

A small, sensitive, and slightly naive refugee from Germany stole the show at the winter meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science, which closed at Pittsburgh last week. Not only the general public and newspapermen, but even the staid scientists forgot their dignity in a scramble to see and hear the little man, Albert Einstein, whose ideas have worked the greatest revolution in modern scientific thought.

General Grant Recalled Meeting Lincoln (National Park Service, 1956)
1956, Abraham Lincoln, Recent Articles, The National Park Service

General Grant Recalled Meeting Lincoln (National Park Service, 1956)

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A short paragraph from General Grant’s memoir recalling the the first private interview with President Lincoln, on the occasion in the early spring of 1864 when he was given command of all the Federal armies.

In my first interview with Mr. Lincoln alone he stated to me that he had never professed to be a military man or to know how campaigns should be conducted…


Click here to read about a dream that President Lincoln had, a dream that anticipated his violent death.

When Grant Met Lincoln for the First Time (National Park Service, 1956)
1956, General Grant, The National Park Service

When Grant Met Lincoln for the First Time (National Park Service, 1956)

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A short paragraph from General Grant’s memoir recalling the the first private interview with President Lincoln, on the occasion in the early spring of 1864 when he was given command of all the Federal armies:

In my first interview with Mr. Lincoln alone he stated to me that he had never professed to be a military man or to know how campaigns should be conducted, and never wanted to interfere in them…


Click here to read about General Grant’s Chief of Staff, General John Rawlins.

When Grant was a Colonel (Literary Digest, 1908)
1908, General Grant, The Literary Digest

When Grant was a Colonel (Literary Digest, 1908)

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This Civil War reminiscence was originally printed in a Missouri newspaper and concerned the Union General U.S. Grant (1822 – 1885) when he was a lowly colonel assigned to guard the railroads along the Salt River in Northeast Missouri and how he got along with the local population:


He talked politely in a calm, dispassionate way, and never with heat or anger. Some of those who visited his camp in those days quote him as saying that if he had considered the war merely to free slaves he would have taken his command and joined the South…


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General Grant’s march on Richmond.


Click here to read about the son of General Grant and his memories of his father at Vicksburg.

F. Scott Fitzgerald at Twenty-Five (The American Magazine, 1922)
1922, Recent Articles, The American Magazine, Twentieth Century Writers

F. Scott Fitzgerald at Twenty-Five (The American Magazine, 1922)

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At the peak of his fame, F. Scott Fitzgerald penned this opinion piece for a popular U.S. magazine:


For one thing, I do not like old people – They are always talking about their experience, and very few of them have any! – But it is the old folks that run the world; so they try to hide the fact that only young people are attractive or important.

The American Cemetery at Romagne (Literary Digest, 1919)
1919, Cemeteries, The Literary Digest

The American Cemetery at Romagne (Literary Digest, 1919)

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An eye-witness account of the construction of the American Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in Romagne, France:

They are now gathering up the bodies of the 26,000 American boys who were killed on the Argonne-Meuse battlefield, and are burying them in a great cemetery at Romagne, a little town in the heart of the region where the fighting took place. Here and there all over the battlefield are stakes, each marking the grave of an American soldier who was buried where he fell.

In one of the office buildings a large force of clerks is keeping the records of the dead; no banking firm could be more careful of its accounts than are these clerks…and their superiors of their registration of graves.

Military Influence on NY Fashion | 1918 Vanity Fair Article on Fashion
1918, Fashion (WWI), Recent Articles, Vanity Fair Magazine

The Great War and It’s Influence on Feminine Fashion (Vanity Fair, 1918)

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The military influence on feminine fashion predates the conflict of 1914-1918 by a long shot and the evidence of this is undeniable. These 1918 fashion illustrations show the influence that the war was having on American designers during the final year of W.W. I.


Click here to read about the fashion legacy of W.W. I…


To read about one of the fashion legacies of W.W. II, click here…


Click here to read about the origins of the T-shirt.

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