Les Standiford’s latest work, “Washington Burning” (Crown, May 2008) is the story of Pierre L’Enfant’s battle with Congress, the founding fathers, and the residents of Washington to keep a city true to itself and its nation in a time where nothing, not even a budding democracy, was certain. —CS
Many thanks for warmly embracing the winter issue of American Heritage, the first offering from American Heritage Publishing Company—the proud, new publisher of American Heritage and Invention & Technology.
1997:IBM’s computer Deep Blue defeats Garry
Kasparov in the sixth and final game of their
chess match.
1956:British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd
announces that the Gold Coast will be the first
black African country to be granted
independence from Britain. It will be renamed
Ghana.
1894:In response to declining wages, employees of
the Pullman’s Palace Car Company, led by
Eugene Debs, go on strike.
1858:Minnesota becomes the thirty-second state to
join the Union.
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