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1994

Stories Published in this Year

He Was There | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

An Interview with Walter Cronkite

How Have We Changed? | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

A wide range of historians, writers, and public figures reflect on “the most important, or interesting, or overlooked way in which America has changed"

Agents of Change | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

You’ve probably never heard of them, but these ten people changed your life. Each of them is a big reason why your world today is so different from anyone’s world in 1954.

On The Bayou | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

Cajun Country
Don’t Drop the Potato

New York Underground | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

River of Steel: The Building of the New York City Subway

Endangered Species | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

Remembering Main Street
An American Album

Billie Holiday | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

In a sordid new biography, the great blues singer’s life has eclipsed her art.

An American Heritage veteran looks at our first year to see what four decades have done to our subject.

1954 | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult, and there were plenty of shadows, along with the sunshine.

Hard Copy | December 1994 (Volume: 45, Issue: 8)

Froth & Scum
Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium

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