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William H. Tunner: Berlin Airlift Commander
, , , Issue 6During World War II, Tunner led the effort to fly supplies from India “over the Hump” of the Himalayas to supply nineteen Chinese divisions, and later commanded the Berlin Airlift operation. More >>>
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Getting Right With Robert E. Lee
, , , Issue 3How to know the unknowable man More >>>
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The First To Secede
, , , Issue 4South Carolina severed ties with the Union not out of concern for states' rights but because of slavery More >>>
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Making Sense of the Fourth of July
, , , Issue 4The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it—and that is why we celebrate it More >>>
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American Heritage Publishes 60th Anniversary Issue
The 60th Anniversary issue of American Heritage is arriving on newsstands starting December 8. For this much-anticipated issue, the magazine’s editors asked 36 leading historians including 14 winner More >>>
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East Meets Western
, , , Issue 5How the Japanese made sense of our silent movies More >>>
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The Birth Of Social Security
, , , Issue 3Had Franklin D. Roosevelt not been so conservative, we might have had national health insurance forty years ago More >>>
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And The Middle West
, , , Issue 6Maybe Mrs. Stowe wasn’t so big, after all. She fulminated against slavery, and a great many high-minded people listened and took fire, but the blaze that finally killed slavery was not really kind More >>>
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Screenings
, , , Issue 2Larry McMurtry: Writing westerns from Hud to Brokeback Mountain More >>>
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The Manipulator
, , , Issue 6Neither the profound sense of reaching forward into the unknown nor the bitterness of unbridled passion attaches to the career of Judge David Davis of Illinois; yet this man’s life, too, is worth More >>>