THE TIME MACHINE

The Time Machine

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February/March 1998

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Volume

49

Issue

1

1573 1798 1823 1973

Stories published from "February/March 1998"

1973 Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

The Watergate Bursts

A Lot Of Change

Authored by: The Editors

As production grew more efficient, the yard took on 19,500 workers, and they turned out 20 ships in 61 days.

Schlesinger’s Syllabus

Authored by: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

The thirteen books you must read to understand America

All That Glittered

Authored by: The Editors

Save for the Civil War, what occurred after a carpenter glimpsed a flash of yellow 150 years ago was the biggest story of the nineteenth century. RICHARD REINHARDT examines what we think we know (and don’t) about the people who made it happen.

The Price Of Gold

Authored by: The Editors

Olney Thayer was just one of tens of thousands who rushed to California to seize the future. His experience is unique—and all too common.

Paradise Lost?

Authored by: Fredric Smoler

Have Americans slid backward since the sunny, prosperous years after World War II, as so many feel? To find out, an English-born historian compares our recent past with earlier times, and in the process learns something about our likely course into the next century.

The Texture Of Time

Authored by: John Lukacs

In attempting to tell the story of our century by retrieving the subtlest nuances of the past, a historian makes an audacious foray into a new sort of literature

The Rise Of The Skyscraper And The Fall Of Louis Sullivan

Authored by: Carter Wiseman

He showed the way to the future and then was stranded there, at odds even with his own aesthetic sensibility

Is Lincoln Here?

Authored by: Harold Holzer

A stereo view discovered in a California flea market may show the President-elect embarked on a momentous journey

1573 Four Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Drake Sees the Pacific