Winter 2011

Volume 60 , Issue 4

6 years ago By Edwin S. Grosvenor

DEPARTMENTS

FEATURES

A Boy From Tampico

Most associate Ronald Reagan with California, but he spent his formative years in the midwest. On the centennial of his birth, a handful of small Illinois towns want a share of the limelight.

Douglas Brinkley

Frémont Steals California

A junior Army officer, acting on secret orders from the president, bluffed a far stronger Mexican force into conceding North America's westernmost province to the United States

Sally Denton

Picturing Alaska

On a 1947 trip up north with his son, Ansel Adams took a remarkable photograph that brought Alaska's grandeur to the American public on a large scale for the first time

Douglas Brinkley

The Naked Truth Of Battle

A preeminent author recalls his experience as one of America's first combat historians, among a handful of men who accompanied soldiers into the bloodiest battles to write history as it was being made

James MacGregor Burns

Those Magnificent Men: 100 Years Of Naval Aviation

A century ago, a skilled and fearless stunt pilot landed a wire-and-wood aircraft on a ship's deck -- and introduced the era of naval aviation

Hiller B. Zobel, John H. Zobel