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Fall
2003 (Vol. 84, No. 3)
Table
of Contents
FEATURE ARTICLES:
“Get Ready
for ’96”: The Decatur County Press, Partisanship, and the Presidential
Campaign of 1896
“The ‘anarchists’ have captured Decatur County,” one editor
gloated.
by Robert B. Mitchell
From Genealogy
to History
How searching for an ancestor led to exploring a high-stakes election.
by Robert B. Mitchell
William Jennings
Bryan and His “Cross of Gold” Speech
An electric moment in U.S. history, and the individual who made it happen.
by Robert W. Cherny
The Fighting 51st
Iowa in the Philippines
“Our life here in the trenches is not as bad as it might seem.”
by Michael W. Vogt
In Commemoration
of Ellis: The Iowa Beginnings of a Great American Humorist
He wrote the story “Pigs Is Pigs”—and a few thousand more.
by Katherine Harper
The Sorry Tale
of Hennery K. Lunk
A tall tale about a Mississippi River town south of “Deebuque.”
by Ellis Parker Butler
DEPARTMENTS:
Front Porch:
William Jennings Bryan’s voice still resonates today.
Traditions: Moving On in
1917
If it’s March 1, it must be Moving Day on the farm.
by Hazel Phillips Stimson; introduction by Ginalie Swaim
One in a Million:
A little brass eagle pin worn on the lapel symbolized support for presidential
incumbent William McKinley in 1900.
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