February 1956
Features
The Albany Plan of Union might have made the Revolution unnecessary
This art form dismayed the moralist, delighted small boys, and somehow put its own stamp on the American legend
Never again can there be a hunting party as gay or as risky as the one Sir William Stewart devised in 1843
Published here for the first time, Douglas Southall Freeman’s letters to the Carnegie Corporation telling of his research on Washington show
Fort Stanwix was doomed—until the Iroquois heard the ravings of Hon Yost Schuyler
How Cape Hatteras earned its evil notoriety as graveyard
of the Atlantic—and how it looked to a speculative novelist on tour
A noble portrait was grotesque, until the shadows were changed
There have been few more desperate fights than the one in which John B. Hood vainly tried to block the invasion of the South
Two slick miners fooled Tiffanys and Rothschilds until a geologist found the fake “mountain of gems”
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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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.
