April 1961
Features
Against a background of postwar turmoil, a 28-year-old State Department aide was sent to negotiate with the Bolshevik leaders. His rebuff by Wilson caused a national uproar
A century ago this month began the war that set
These unpublished letters show how one family was bitterly split
In Toledo a civic crusade matched the popular mayor against a famed evangelist—both with the same name
How gnarled, upright ex-President John Quincy Adams broke the South’s gag rule in Congress and at last won popular applause
An Englishman re-examines certain stereotyped attitudes on the American Revolution
Enraged by losses from their herds a band of respectable cattle barons took the law into their own hands—and barely escaped with their lives
Philip II’s cédula real evoked from his overseas domains vivid picture-maps of life in Spanish America
The huge, cloven-footed creature that terrorized southeast Arizona was no figment of the mind. The grisly story of its origin and fate was more macabre in fact than any fiction
The eccentric Timothy Dexter finally found a sympathetic biographer in his fellow townsman, novelist John Marquand
To him, said Morse, art had been only “a cruel jilt.” Then Providence found other work for this complex, difficult Yankee
The search for perpetual motion is a tragicomedy of obsessed inventors, an eager faith, and humbug
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
