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  1. America’s Cities Are (mostly) Better Than Ever

    By Richard C. Wade, February/March 1979, Volume 30, Issue 2

    Today’s city, for all its ills, is “cleaner, less crowded, safer, and more livable than its turn-of-the-century counterpart,” argues this eminent urban historian. Yet two new problems are potentially fatal. … More >>>

  2. Pentecost In The Backwoods

    By Bernard A. Wei…, June 1959, Volume 10, Issue 4

    Shocking, exuberant, exalted, the camp meeting answered the pioneers' demand for religion and helped shape the character of the West. More >>>

  3. 1876: The Eagle Screams

    By Lynne Cheney, April 1974, Volume 25, Issue 3

    HISTORICAL REGISTER of the CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION 1876. More >>>

  4. America In London

    By Brian Dunning, April 1987, Volume 38, Issue 3

    Within the city’s best-known landmarks and down its least-visited lanes stand surprisingly vivid mementos of our own national history More >>>

  5. Tempest Over Teapot

    By Bruce Bliven, August 1965, Volume 16, Issue 5

    When the wheeling and dealing of some of President Harding’s closest friends was revealed, the mud spattered Cabinet members, the heads of oil companies, the chairman of the Republican party, and eventually the President himself More >>>

  6. Spoiled Child Of American Politics

    By John A. Garraty, August 1955, Volume 6, Issue 5

    Henry Cabot Lodge was a public man in the old sense—one who was often wrong but never evil More >>>

  7. Going Back

    By Gene Smith, December 1994, Volume 45, Issue 8

    Forty years changed almost everything—but not the author’s gleaming, troubling memories of Miss Clark. So he went looking for her. More >>>

  8. Last Of Four Installments A Michigan Boyhood

    By Bruce Catton, August 1972, Volume 23, Issue 5

    A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP More >>>

  9. How Mother Got Her Day

    By James P. Johnson, April/May 1979, Volume 30, Issue 3

    Alone among our national holidays, Mother’s Day commemorates a death. Thanks to the tireless, even obsessive, labors of Anna Jarvis of West Virginia, we honor all our mothers on the second Sunday in More >>>

  10. Reassessing Spiro Agnew

    By Charles J. Holden, June 2020, Volume 65, Issue 3

    Although he was forced to resign as Nixon’s Vice President, Agnew’s “tough guy” persona set the precedent for subsequent anti-establishment figures including Donald Trump. More >>>

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