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American Heritage MagazineSeptember/October 1987    Volume 38, Issue 6
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WHEN THE IRAN-CONTRA STORY BROKE LAST NOVEMBER, A NUMBER OF public figures as well as news commentators put the revelations in a historical context. Walter Mondale said in a New York Times interview: “It was all so knowable. Did they really think they could get away with it—violate the law and nobody would care? … They were so full of hubris.…”

Shades of Thucydides! Was Mondale really aware of the range of judgments he had brought reverberating back down through the ages? As witness to another democracy being shaken by adventurers two thousand years ago, Thucydides wrote his History of the Peloponnesian War with the idea that “in the course of human things,” events would repeat themselves, that “the future … must resemble if not exactly reflect [the past].” Implicit was the hope that if people could recognize and understand the mistakes of the past, they would not repeat them.

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Feature Stories 
 
Women in Their Time
“LET THEM ALL BE DAMNED—I’LL DO AS I PLEASE”
Georgia O’Keeffe claimed to have done it all by herself—without influence from family, friends, or fellow artists. The real story is less romantic though just as extraordinary.
by Edward Abrahams
Women in Their Time
THREE SISTERS WHO SHOWED THE WAY
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody managed to extend the boundaries that cramped the lives of nineteenth-century women. Elizabeth introduced the kindergarten movement to America, Mary developed a new philosophy of mothering that we now take for granted, and Sophia was liberated from invalidism by her passionate love for her husband.
by Megan Marshall
Women in Their Time
LESS WORK FOR MOTHER?
Modern technology enables the housewife to do much more in the house than ever before. That’s good—and not so good.
by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
THE NON-SIGNERS
Three of the constitutional delegates could not bring themselves to put their names to it.
by Charles L. Mee, Jr.
A TIFFANY GIFT
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 150 years.
THE EXAMPLE OF PRIVATE SLOVIK
Of the thousands of American soldiers court-martialed for desertion in World War II, Eddie Slovik was the only one put to death. One of the judges who convicted him looks back.
by Benedict B. Kimmelman
 
 
 
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MATTERS OF FACT
History and the media.
by Geoffrey C. Ward
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA
Getting caught.
by Peter Baida
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE
Great houses along the Hudson.
by the editors
THEN AND NOW
In pictures.
POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY
Long-overlooked White House “Social Files” are revealing just how much power Presidents’ wives have had.
by Russell Bourne
 
 
 
 
 

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