February 1957
Features
John W. Garrett turned the pioneer Baltimore & Ohio into a great instrument for tapping the treasure of the West
To Stanley Vestal, the old Sioux warrior White Bull describes the day when he counted his greatest coup
"The current was too strong, the demagogues too numerous, the fall elections too near"
From the dark hold of the Amistad sprang a bold band who sailed her into history
Did the mysterious Portuguese sea captain help plot Lincoln’s assassination, or was he an informer?
An enterprising Yankee briefy ruled Atlantic sea lanes but a chain of disasters dogged his great steam packets
In an era that condoned smuggling and lawbreaking the transition from privateer to pirate was easy
Margaret Fuller very possibly spoke the truth, and the literary men of the age both admired and shied away from her
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READING, WRITING AND HISTORY
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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.
