December 1985
Features
A hankering for house cars—and trailers and motor homes—has diverted Americans for more than seventy years
During the 1920s the city spurred local rail traffic with an unparalleled run of superb and stylish posters
A distinguished journalist and former presidential adviser says that to find the meaning of any news story, we must dig for its roots in the past
He was the most naturally gifted of The Eight, and his vigorous, uninhibited vision of city life transformed American painting at the turn of the century. In fact, he may have been too gifted.
For this crime, she was arrested, held, indicted, and put on trial. Judge Hunt presided.
When many of our greatest authors were children, they were first published in the pages of St. Nicholas
For many children who accompanied their parents west across the continent in the 1840s and '50s, the journey was a supreme adventure
Thirty years after judging Eisenhower to be among our worst Presidents, historians have now come around to the opinion most of their fellow Americans held right along.
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AMERICAN CHARACTERS
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
MATTERS OF FACT
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA
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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.
