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1992

Stories Published in this Year

The old Regular Army, part fairy tale and part dirty joke, was generally either ignored or disdained. But its people went about their work with a dogged humdrum gallantry—and when the storm broke, they helped save the world.

Our Checkered Past | December 1992 (Volume: 43, Issue: 8)

A fond ride through the bright high noon and on into the sad twilight of the American taxicab

Cigarette Century | December 1992 (Volume: 43, Issue: 8)

In the past seventy years, while several major diseases have been eradicated, one has risen from obscurity to take its place among the nation’s leading killers.

The Radical Revolution | December 1992 (Volume: 43, Issue: 8)

For years people have argued that France had the real revolution and that ours was mild by comparison. But now a powerful new book says the American Revolution was the most sweeping in all history. It alone established a pure commercial culture—a culture that makes America the universal society we are today.

The Home Front | December 1992 (Volume: 43, Issue: 8)

It was bitter civil war, and a remarkable book offers us perhaps the most intimate picture we have of what it was like for the ordinary people who got caught in its terrible machinery

Private Flohr’s America | December 1992 (Volume: 43, Issue: 8)

From Newport to Yorktown and the battle that won the war: A German foot soldier who fought for American independence tells all about it in a newly discovered memoir

1942 Fifty Years Ago | December 1992 (Volume: 43, Issue: 8)

Faces of the Enemy

Raise the Baton

Patrons of Husbandry

Good-bye, Whiskey, Good-bye, Gin

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