Smithsonian Magazine - 10.2019

DA VID M .^ B LA CK MA N tebellum suit for freedom proved his innocence. They also said that Ward’s alleged crimes had occurred ...

20 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 prologue JUSTICE Literature How to Read Like Mark Twain STEP ONE: PRETEND YOU DON’T LIKE BOO ...

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A clump of Trinitite, formed of desert sand and the impon- derable heat of a nuclear explosion. prologue NATIONAL TREASURE 22 SM ...

Photograph by Maggie West By Richard Rhodes War and Piece A lowly chunk of earth is a telltale trace of the devastating weapon t ...

prologue 24 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 AL AM Y^ Exploration Riches of the Spanish Main A DEEP DIVE INTO THE ARCHIVES YIELD ...

Stauer... Afford the Extraordinary.® O n May 18, 1980, the once-slumbering Mount St. Helens erupted in the Pacific Northwest. It ...

A LEGENDARY WRITER, A QUIRKY SCIENTIST AND AN EPIC OCEAN VOYAGE THAT WOULD REWRITE THE RULES OF ECOLOGY Novelist John Steinbeck, ...

TO THE TIDE POOL STARS FROM THE photographs by IAN C. BATES by RICHARD GRANT ...

28 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 T WAS THE FOURTH SINKING of its long career, and this time the old wooden fi shing boat lay ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 29 The $3 million to rebuild will embrace the latest electronics while aiming to preserve the c ...

30 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 money, grants and publicly raised funds—to make the Western Flyer seaworthy again. He intend ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 31 Geologist-owner John Gregg, here in Baja, plans to turn the Flyer into a fl oating class- ro ...

ON CANNERY ROW in Monterey, the street that Steinbeck immortalized in fi ction, there stands an unobtrusive wood- en building wi ...

WEBS OF LIFE Clockwise from left, Ricketts, at Monterey, California, in the 1930s, pioneered the science of marine ecology. The ...

34 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 terested.” In the essay “About Ed Ricketts,” which is included in The Log from the Sea of Co ...

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36 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 book about the Steinbecks’ marriage, has thought hard about why John omitted Carol from The ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 37 Summing up the worldview that emerged from the journey, Steinbeck wrote, “All things are one ...

BY TONY PERROTTET PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID MAURICE SMITH The mysterious skeleton emerged from Lake Mungo, a dry lakebed in Australia ...