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  1. Power Is The Prize

    By Frank Ernest Hill, December 1962, Volume 14, Issue 1

    As World War II drew to a close, the great industrial empire that was the Ford Motor Company seemed to be reeling madly downhill. At the root of its troubles was Henry Ford himself, whose grip upo More >>>

  2. Are Our Liberties In Peril?

    By Joshua Zeitz, November/December 2001, Volume 52, Issue 8

    Facing a nearly invisible enemy, we all may be subjected to new kinds of government scrutiny. But past wars suggest the final result may be greater freedom. More >>>

  3. The Great Deception

    By Moshe Decter, December 1961, Volume 13, Issue 1

    AMERICA & RUSSIA, PART XI The Communist party in America was so small, so faction-ridden, so isolated. How could it enlist so much popular support? How could illiberalism take in so many liberals? More >>>

  4. The Fantastic Adventures Of Captain Stobo

    By Robert C. Alberts, August 1963, Volume 14, Issue 5

    Into seven crucial years of American colonial history, a young Scots-American officer packed more of the stuff that makes heroes than perhaps a dozen more illustrious men. Yet today his name has slipped into almost complete obscurity More >>>

  5. The Coal Kings Come To Judgment

    By Robert L. Reynolds, April 1960, Volume 11, Issue 3

    When the anthracite miners downed tools in 1902, economic feudalism went on trial More >>>

  6. Flight Of The Wasp

    By Victoria Pope, Spring 2009, Volume 59, Issue 1

    The Women Airforce Service Pilots seemed strange and exotic to World War II America. In fact, not even the military could quite fiqure out what to do with them. More >>>

  7. The Ballad Of Cynthia Ann

    By Donald Culross…, April 1956, Volume 7, Issue 3

    Both grimness and beauty touch this haunting fragment of America’s past More >>>

  8. Lost Horizon

    By Wayne Fields, April 1988, Volume 39, Issue 3

    A hundred and fifty years ago, a sea of grass spread from the Ohio to the Rockies; now only bits and pieces of that awesome wilderness remain for the traveler to discover. More >>>

  9. Renewing America’s Civic Education

    By Brook Manville, June/July 2024, Volume 69, Issue 3

    Although numerous studies show a failure in the teaching of our history and values of democracy, there are models to rebuild the civic bargains by which democracy survives. More >>>

  10. Spoon River Revisited

    By Edward Laning, June 1971, Volume 22, Issue 4

    An artist recalls his Midwestern home town and the poet who made it famous More >>>

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