June 1956
Features
John Charles Frémont never succeeded in living up to his fame, yet he was one of America’s great explorers
Stickler for a point of honor, the General marched to defeat and helped to lose a war
Her past was shady but her conscience was excellent,
and all in all she played a big part in the emancipation of women
The political convention was devised to meet an unforeseen need, and now and then it has an unexpected result
The third in a series on TIMES OF TRIAL IN AMERICAN STATECRAFT
Old Hickory's attack on Biddle's bank had some unexpected consequences
Washington would be a capital of Egyptian pillars and Roman splendor if this hardware merchant’s grandiose plan had been adopted
Modern G. I.’s will recognize a fellow spirit in the sergeant who wrote this account of life in General Washington’s army
Along the Mississippi the spirit of vanished culture lingers in the ruined columns of the great plantations
For decades the private railroad car was the great symbol of wealth. Here is what it looked like in its heyday.
Roger Williams liked Indians and almost everyone else, and he founded a colony that gave our freedom a broader horizon
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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.
