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Bernard A. Weisberger

Bernard A. Weisberger, distinguished former history professor of Wayne State University and the Universities of Chicago and Rochester, was the associate editor of American Heritage from 1970 to 1972. He authored When Chicago Ruled Baseball: The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906 (William Morrow, 2006), and has also written Reporters for the Union, a study of Civil War newspapermen.

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A recent book argues that to preserve the Republic, we must stop worshiping an outmoded document
Some worries surrounded these early atomic-bomb tests, among them: Would the Pacific Ocean explode?
Our century ends as it began, with corporations rushing headlong into wedlock
New legislation means to bring lobbyists out into the sunlight. History suggests they’ll bask there.
The father of the Pure Food and Drug Act was as hard on his allies as he was on his foes
The saga of Liberia’s beginnings reflects both America’ humanitarian generosity and its racism
Presidents have wanted it since before any of us was born
The Nullifiers, October 1995 | Vol. 46, No. 6
Today’s States’ Rights debate is in fact as old as the republic—and not yet as contentious as it got in the 1830s
How the Bureau got those restrictions that so many people today want to see abolished
A look at the very small group of powerful and effective men who are Gingrich’s truest models
We tend to see the Constitution as permanent and inviolable—but we’re always wild to change it
Are racial tendencies immutable? Almost ninety years ago the government spent a lot of money to find out.
What do the stunning Republican victories in the recent election mean? The answer may lie a century in the past.
An American Heritage veteran looks at our first year to see what four decades have done to our subject
The emergence of AIDS has added new urgency to the work of an organization that turns eighty this year
No Chief Executive has ever made it out of the White House without being scalded
The arguments raging in the current health-care debate have all been heard before
The half-remembered Korean conflict was full of surprises, and nearly all of them were unpleasant
Haiti’s current plight is grimly familiar to anyone with the least knowledge of that country’s past
The unquiet history of the modern state of Israel has been tied up with the United States from the beginning
They had the perfect remedy for the bloated bureaucracy: the civil service
It’s a politician’s bromide—and it also happens to be a profound truth. No war, no national crisis, has left a greater impress on the American psyche than the successive waves of new arrivals that quite literally built the country. Now that arguments against immigration are rising again, it is well to remember that every single one of them has been heard before.
“Ten thousand River Commissions,” wrote Mark Twain, “cannot tame that lawless stream.” But James Eads came close.
Terrorists armed with high explosives have been busy on our shores lately. America has weathered such attacks before.
First Ladies have been under fire ever since Albert Gallatin called Abigail Adams “Mrs. President”
The sad lessons of 1919 are eloquent about today’s endlessly wretched situation in the Balkans
D.c. Law, May/June 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 3