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Why They Impeached Andrew Johnson
, , , Issue 1One of the saddest tales in American history tells how a well-intentioned President lost a dazzling opportunity More >>>
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Country
, , , Issue 7It’s the fastest-growing music in America. It’s a three-billion-dollar-plus industry. Cable stations devoted to it reach sixty-two million homes. And yet, says one passionate follower of country music past and present, its story is over. More >>>
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Spoon River Revisited
, , , Issue 4An artist recalls his Midwestern home town and the poet who made it famous More >>>
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The First Kansas Colored
, , , Issue 1They were the first black men to fight in the Civil War. They were the first to serve alongside whites. And they were the first to die. More >>>
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High Eagle The Many Lives Of Colonel Tim Mccoy
, , , Issue 4Who is Colonel Tim McCoy? He is the last surviving cowboy hero of the silent screen. His contemporaries—Tom Mix. Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, Fred Thompson, Harry Carey, and lesser lights� More >>>
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One Hundred Years Of Huck Finn
, , , Issue 4It was a difficult birth, but it looks as if the child will live forever More >>>
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Rosie The Riveter Remembers
, , , Issue 2For millions of women, consciousness raising didn’t start in the 1960s. It started when they helped win World War II. More >>>
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The Johnson Country War
, , , Issue 3Enraged by losses from their herds a band of respectable cattle barons took the law into their own hands—and barely escaped with their lives More >>>
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History And How To Write It
, , , Issue 5In the period before the appearance of the new AMERICAN HERITAGE, when the Society of American Historians was studying was of establisliing n sound popular magazine of history, the following artic More >>>
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A Man Of Conscience
, , , Issue 2In an era when political morality had sunk low, an immigrant, Carl Schurz, helped rally the republic to its ancient ideals More >>>