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Unforgiven
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PLUS:
UTAH STANDOFF
America’s almost-war
with the Mormons
The
HITTING HOME
The only WWI military
atack on U.S. soil
PIONEER WOMAN
Mary Hamilton’s memoir of
living rough in Mississippi
Lee returned to
Richmond in 1865 to
a vandalized home.
June 2018
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FEATURES
32 Unforgiven
Rebellion, the Lost Cause, and what we talk about
when we talk about Robert E. Lee.
By Joseph Connor
40 Standof in the Sand
The Mormon War started out with a lot of sizzle
but ended up as a lot of fizzle.
By Kenny Kemp
48 Hi ing Home
In the only instance during World War I of an
enemy military atack on American soil, a U-boat
crew unleashed hell on the Cape Cod beach town
of Orleans, Massachusets.
By Jake Klim
56
Concordia Days
When the Mississippi Delta was a frontier, a young
woman bet her future on married life in logging camps
at the back of beyond.
By Mary Mann Hamilton
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DEPARTMENTS
6 Mosaic
12 Contributors
14 Interview
Historian David W. Blight
on the weight of symbols
16 American
Schemers
A pair of Gilded Age
lawyers fleeced Gotham
18 Déjà Vu
The perils and price
of presidential pique
22 SCOTUS 101
Closing down deed covenants
18
Succeeding Abraham
Lincoln in the White House,
Andrew Johnson displayed
more peevishness than
statesmanship.
24 Cameo
Harriet Jacobs, #MeToo matriarch
26 Style
66 Reviews
72 An American Place
Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho
ON THE COVER:
In death, Confederate General
Robert E. Lee became a symbol employed by campaigns
to rationalize the Confederacy and white supremacy.
Looking at life and fashion, American-style
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