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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.

Articles by this Author

Most of our Presidents have been avid athletes, even Taft. Could a party safely nominate an overweight and unabashed couch potato who scorned exercise?
The two-party system, undreamt of by the founders of the Republic, has been one of its basic shaping forces ever since their time
In the 1920s, the Klan expanded by targeting Catholics, Jews, and foreigners as well as blacks. But eventually it collided with fundamental American values.
First Encounter, December 1991 | Vol. 42, No. 8
How We Go To War, April 1991 | Vol. 42, No. 2
In The News, November 1990 | Vol. 41, No. 7
The Flap over the Flag
S & L scandals, junk bonds, defaults—the pattern is familiar to anyone who knows about U.S. banking between 1830 and 1855.
The maker of a fine new documentary on the Civil War tells how the medium of film can evoke the emotional reality of history
The disputed election of "His Fraudulency" Rutherford B. Hayes ended the era of Reconstruction.
Dreams Deferred, March 1990 | Vol. 41, No. 2
How the Fifteenth Amendment, like the Fourteenth, was almost strangled in its cradle.
The Wrongdoers, December 1989 | Vol. 40, No. 8
Corruption must be fought in ways that preserve fairness and freedom. Otherwise the reformers can be as bad as the rascals.