2000

THE HOLIDAY’S TRIUMPHANT RISE FROM AN OVERLOOKED AFTERTHOUGHT IS ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST SUCCESS STORIES.

SIX VIETNAM SOLDIERS GO OFF ON A VERY STRANGE ASSIGNMENT

A YANKEE SCHOOLGIRL FINDS HERSELF IN CIVIL-RIGHTS-ERA ALABAMA

THREE CENTS A BARREL

Why a 200-year-old decoration offers evidence in the controversy surrounding the Hiroshima bombing.

IN CHANGING TIMES, IT’S NOT ALWAYS CLEAR

Our foremost satiric artist bids farewell to a great subject—and selects four colleagues he believes were the departing President’s defining delineators

Geoffrey C. Ward, writer of a major new book and 19-hour
documentary (directed by Ken Burns) on the subject, discusses the joys and wonders of our native art form

A murderous disease was ravaging the south in 1914. Then one brave and determined doctor discovered the cure — and nobody believed him.

JACKIE COOGAN REACHED THE PINNACLE OF SUCCESS AND STARDOM WHEN HE WAS FIVE. THEN HE SET THE HOLLYWOOD PATTERN OF PAYING THE PRICE FOR EARLY FAME.