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Home » Magazine » 2004 » Volume 55, Issue 6

November/December 2004

Volume 55
, 
Issue 6

Features 

African-American History
Gerald Early
America Unabridged
The Editors
Biographies
Richard Brookhiser
Business
John Steele Gordon
Golden Anniversary

Like the nation it covers, American Heritage was revolutionary at its birth. And like that nation’s story, ours is a real cliffhanger.

Mark C. Reynolds
Historical Movies
Allen Barra
Historical Novels
Max Byrd
History And The Bushes

An Interview With the President and the First Lady

Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Indispensable Photographs
Gail Buckland
Modern America 1917 To 1941
William E. Leuchtenburg
Modern Times From 1974
Richard Reeves
Popular Culture
David Nasaw
Sports
Roger Kahn
Technology
Harold Evans
The Civil War 1861 To 1865
Stephen W. Sears
The Immigrant Experience
Kevin Baker
The Industrial Age 1865 To 1917
Donald L. Miller
The Postwar Years 1945 To 1974
Douglas Brinkley
The Revolution 1776 To 1787
Richard M. Ketchum
The West
Robert M. Utley
The Young Republic 1787 To 1860
Pauline Maier
Women’s History
Jean H. Baker
World War II 1941 To 1945
Roger J. Spiller
November/December 2004

Departments 

Letter From the Publisher

Told And Retold
Timothy C. Forbes

Time Machine

1954 50 Years Ago
Frederic D. Schwarz

American Heritage is proud to host the
National Portal to
Historic Collections

Recently added: 

  • American Revolution Center
  • National Museum of Civil War Medicine
  • National Museum of the U.S. Navy
  • Manassas National Battlefield
  • Maryland State House

In association with the
American Association for State and Local History

Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?

  • “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.

  • 65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.

  • The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.

  • Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.

  • 40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.

  • A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.

  • “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.

  • The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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