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  1. America’s First Iraq

    By Kevin Baker, August/September 2003, Volume 54, Issue 4

    WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE DELIVERED THE PHILIPPINES FROM TYRANNY A CENTURY AGO More >>>

  2. Filibuster: A Look at the Record

    By Allan L. Damon, December 1975, Volume 27, Issue 1

    The filibuster has played a key role in the enactment of federal law since 1789, but is rarely used outside the U.S. Senate. More >>>

  3. The Federal Debt

    By John Steele Gordon, November 1995, Volume 46, Issue 7

    And how it grew, and grew, and grew… More >>>

  4. “me For Ma—and I Ain’t Got A Dern Thing Againts Pa”

    By Robert S. Gallagher, October 1966, Volume 17, Issue 6

    Alabama’s Lurleen Wallace is not the first wife to stand in for her husband on the political stage. “Farmer Jim” Ferguson ran his Miriam for governor of Texas five times, and twice the voters elected her More >>>

  5. The First Great Cheerful Giver

    By Geoffrey T. Hellman, June 1966, Volume 17, Issue 4

    George Peabody made fourteen million dollars and gave nine million away —with no tax deductions to urge him on More >>>

  6. Woodrow Wilson Wouldn’t Yield

    By Thomas A. Bailey, June 1957, Volume 8, Issue 4

    While Paris cheered “Voovro” the isolationist crowds back home cried "Impeach him!” and in a clash of imperious wills his dream evaporated More >>>

  7. The Political Machine I: Rise And Fall The Age Of The Bosses

    By William V. Shannon, June 1969, Volume 20, Issue 4

    They were usually corrupt and often inefficient, but the oldstyle politicians had their uses. Now almost all are gone More >>>

  8. Our Readers Choose: Favorite Books of 2021

    By Edwin S. Grosvenor, October 2022, Volume 67, Issue 5

    Interestingly, most of the 2021 books voted best by readers of American Heritage are about the Colonial and Founding eras. More >>>

  9. 1965 Twenty-five Years Ago

    By Anonymous (not verified), March 1990, Volume 41, Issue 2

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 destroyed the legal foundations of segregation in America, but it did nothing to end the literacy tests and terrorism that Southern states used to deny black Americans More >>>

  10. The Summer Of Our Discontent

    By Bruce Watson, Summer 2010, Volume 60, Issue 2

    Although marred by the grisly murders of three young activists, the Freedom Summer of 1964 brought revolutionary changes to Mississippi and the nation. More >>>

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