Skip to main content

101 Things Continued

March 2023
1min read

Professor Garraty is one of my favorite American historians, but I do think that his list in the December issue really ought to include the Gettysburg Address, which my generation remembers verbatim. Also there’s this souvenir of the 1940 presidential election that left Republicans unamused: A horse’s tail is long and silky/Lift it up—there’s Wendell Willkie!

We hope you enjoy our work.

Please support this 72-year tradition of trusted historical writing and the volunteers that sustain it with a donation to American Heritage.

Donate

Stories published from "April 1987"

Authored by: Otto Friedrich

From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past

Authored by: Geoffrey C. Ward

A biographer who knows it well tours Franklin Roosevelt’s home on the Hudson and finds it was not so much the President’s castle as it was his formidable mother’s.

Authored by: Alfred Kazin

A journey through a wide and spellbinding land, and a look at the civilization along its edges.

Authored by: Shirley Abbott

In the quiet luxury of the historic district, a unique form of house plan—which goes back two hundred years—is a beguiling surprise for a visitor

In the blustery days of late fall, the traveler still can find the sparseness and solitude that so greatly pleased the Concord naturalist in 1849

Authored by: Brian Dunning

Within the city’s best-known landmarks and down its least-visited lanes stand surprisingly vivid mementos of our own national history

Authored by: Selma Rattner

Every town you pass through has felt the impact of the modern historic-preservation movement. Now a founder of that movement discusses what is real and what is fake in preservation efforts.

Authored by: Richard Reinhardt

No city has more energetically obliterated the remnants of its past. And yet no city has a greater sense of its history.

Featured Articles

The world’s most prominent actress risked her career by standing up to one of Hollywood’s mega-studios, proving that behind the beauty was also a very savvy businesswoman. 

Rarely has the full story been told about how a famed botanist, a pioneering female journalist, and First Lady Helen Taft battled reluctant bureaucrats to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington. 

Often thought to have been a weak president, Carter was strong-willed in doing what he thought was right, regardless of expediency or the political fallout.

Why have thousands of U.S. banks failed over the years? The answers are in our history and politics.

In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.