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  1. Traveling With A Sense Of History

    By Otto Friedrich, April 1987, Volume 38, Issue 3

    From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past More >>>

  2. Why Today Is an Anti-American Holiday in Panama

    By Jack Kelly

    Few Americans know that January 9 is a national holiday in Panama, and even fewer know why. Today is Martyrs’ Day—commemorating an outbreak of violence between Panama and the United States in 19 More >>>

  3. Annapolis: An American Classic

    By Anonymous (not verified), October/November 1986, Volume 37, Issue 6

    Annapolis: an American classic. More >>>

  4. An American Hero: Sargent York

    By Bruce Watson, Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue, Volume 63, Issue 3

    In history’s long parade of military heroes, few can rival Sergeant Alvin C. York More >>>

  5. The Dutch Door To America

    By Bart Plantenga, April 1999, Volume 50, Issue 2

    “One nation is a copy of the other,” said John Adams on his first visit to the Netherlands; two centuries later an American visitor to Holland can still trace the connection More >>>

  6. The Nez Perce Flight For Justice

    By R. David Edmunds, Fall 2008, Volume 58, Issue 5

    Snake River, Oregon side, June 1877 The charismatic Indian leader Chief Joseph stood on the bank of the Snake River, looking across the water to Idaho and beyond to his people’s new h More >>>

  7. How Papa Liberated Paris

    By Gen. S. L. A. …, April 1962, Volume 13, Issue 3

    An eyewitness re-creates the wonderful, wacky day in August, 1944, when Hemingway, a handful of Americans, and a senorita named Elena helped rekindle the City of Light. Champagne ran in rivers, and the squeals inside the tanks were not from grit in the bogie wheels More >>>

  8. Dearest Friends

    By Margaret L. Coit, October 1968, Volume 19, Issue 6

    The courtship and fifty-four-year marriage of John and Abigail Adams was, despite separation and war and tragedy, a moving and highly literate love feast between two "Dearest Friends" More >>>

  9. The Legend Of Jim Hill

    By Stewart H. Holbrook, June 1958, Volume 9, Issue 4

    The steamship clerk of Pig’s Eye, Minnesota, built a railroad empire from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound More >>>

  10. Iwo Jima

    By Alvin M. Josephy Jr., June/July 1981, Volume 32, Issue 4

    A marine correspondent recalls the deadliest battle of the Pacific war More >>>

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