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June 1989 Issue
June 1989 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Puzzler
    Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  • Word Watch
    Anne H. Soukhanov
  • The June Almanac
  • Notes: The Big Question
    David Owen
  • Spain: Thriving Without a State
    David H. Rosenthal
  • "Washington: Gung Ho on O'b"
    Nicholas Lemann
Poem

The Birds and Columbus

The Journal shows that the birds of North America deserve the credit. —Samuel Eliot Morison

By Ann Stanford
June 1989 Issue
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