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Eisenhower's Farewell
, , , Issue 6In his last speech as President, he inaugurated the spirit of the 1960s More >>>
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The Postwar Years 1945 To 1974
, , , Issue 6In his kaleidoscopic novel U.S.A., a trilogy published between 1930 and 1936, John Dos Passos offered a descriptive line that has always stayed with me. America, he wrote, is “a public library full More >>>
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FDR's New Deal
, , , Issue 1Roosevelt felt the country needed “direct, vigorous action” to pull it out of the Depression. More >>>
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"The Sparck of Rebellion"
, , , Issue 4Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion More >>>
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Highway
, , , Issue 3Most Overrated Highway: Part of I-10. Taking its cues from Robert Moses, in March 1968 the city of New Orleans allowed Interstate 10, which connects Jacksonville to Santa Monica, to rip through t More >>>
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A Boy From Tampico: Ronald Reagan
, , , Issue 4Most associate Ronald Reagan with California, but he spent his formative years in the midwest. On the centennial of his birth, a handful of small Illinois towns want a share of the limelight. More >>>
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Environmental Program
, , , Issue 3Most Overrated Environmental Program: This just occurred in March 1999, when the Maxxam Corporation of Houston was paid $480 million by the federal government and the state of California for 10 More >>>
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The Man Who Won The War For Us
, , , Issue 3THE NEGLECTED EPIC OF ANDREW JACKSON HIGGINS More >>>
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Road Book
, , , Issue 7The most American of American literary genres is nearly as old as the motorcar itself More >>>
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Dust!
, , , Issue 5In the 1930’s, “black blizzards” eroded a 97-million-acre section of the Great Plains, which an AP reporter casually but appropriately termed the “Dust Bowl.” The name stuck. Another Dust Bowl is not inevitable, but it is possible. More >>>