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  1. Marching With King in Selma

    By Bob Yuhnke, Spring 2023, Volume 68, Issue 2

    A college student in the march from Selma to Montgomery recalls the struggle for democracy in Alabama in 1965. More >>>

  2. The Woman Who Said “No” to War

    By Bruce Watson

    Bruce Watson, a Contributing Editor of American Heritage, writes blogs for our website and his own at TheAttic.space. The drums of war were sounding when, in March 1917, Jeannette Rankin arrived in More >>>

  3. The Awkward Interval

    By Laurin L. Henry, October 1968, Volume 19, Issue 6

    Our antiquated elective system gives an outgoing President or congressman egregious opportunity for farewells—and mischief More >>>

  4. Making Sense of the Fourth of July

    By Pauline Maier, July/August 1997, Volume 48, Issue 4

    The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it—and that is why we celebrate it More >>>

  5. America's Oddest Election

    By Harold Holzer, Fall 2010, Volume 60, Issue 3

    Lincoln came out a victor in the 1860 presidential election despite winning only 2 percent of the Southern vote More >>>

  6. The First To Secede

    By James W. Loewen, Winter 2011, Volume 60, Issue 4

    South Carolina severed ties with the Union not out of concern for states' rights but because of slavery More >>>

  7. Placards at the White House

    By Jean H. Baker, Winter 2010, Volume 59, Issue 4

    In 1917, fed up with the inaction of conservative suffragists, Alice Paul decided on the unorthodox strategy of pressuring the president directly More >>>

  8. Love, Jackie

    By Carl Sferrazza…, September 1994, Volume 45, Issue 5

    The Johnsons and the Kennedys are popularly thought to have shared a strong mutual dislike, but stacks of letters and a remarkable tape of Jacqueline Kennedy reminiscing show something very different —and more interesting More >>>

  9. 1890 One Hundred Years Ago

    By Arthur Nielsen, February 1990, Volume 41, Issue 1

    On January 25 a half-century of unsuccessful attempts to unionize the coal-mining industry ended when miners from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan founded the United Mine Workers of Americ More >>>

  10. Taking Another Look At The Constitutional Blueprint

    By The Editors, May/June 1987, Volume 38, Issue 4

    In this year of the bicentennial of the Constitution, American Heritage asked a number of historians, authors, and public figures to address themselves to one or both of these questions:1. What change More >>>

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