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Seth Eastman | December 1954
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Albert Bierstadt | December 1954
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Frederic Remington | December 1954
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Charles M. Russell | December 1954
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Henry F. Farny | December 1954
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A King’s Funeral | December 1954
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The Day They Burned The Capitol | December 1954
Only a lucky rainfall put an end to our humiliation Read >>
Henry Ford | December 1954
—a complex man Read >>
The Old Fall River Line | December 1954
Everyone from presidents to swindlers sailed the Sound on “Mammoth Palace Steamers” in the heyday of the sidewheelers Read >>
Acadia Country | December 1954
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Panamint: Suburb Of Hell | December 1954
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The Writing Of History | December 1954
An English Authority Compares British and American Viewpoints Read >>
The Oral History Project Of Columbia University | December 1954
AMERICAN HERITAGE is privileged to present the first publication of material from Read >>
The Personal Reminiscences Of Albert Lasker | December 1954
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Great River | December 1954
Paul Horgan tells a lyric story of the Rio Grande Valley, where Spanish and Indian cultures met in a conflict of arms and ideas Read >>
The Song That Wrote Itself | December 1956
Mrs. Howe jotted down the “Battle Hymn” in haste, but she lived to hear a nation sing it, and went to her grave to its tune Read >>
Doctors In Pictures | December 1956
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Cities Of The Middle Border | December 1956
Some became great, others stayed as they were-- and their story tells of the rise of the Midwest Read >>
The Bustling West Of 1857 | December 1956
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Why They Impeached Andrew Johnson | December 1956
One of the saddest tales in American history tells how a well-intentioned President lost a dazzling opportunity Read >>
The Books We Got For Christmas | December 1956
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Portrait of a Yankee Skipper | December 1956
From his great-grandfather’s papers a poet re-creates that hard-working man of many parts—sailor, farmer, merchant financier—the New England sea captain Read >>
Lafayette’s Two Revolutions | December 1956
Washington was his idol, but he could not apply his American ideals to a France sliding into the Terror Read >>
From Mother To Daughter And Back By Rebus | December 1956
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The Girls Behind The Guns | December 1956
It’s the sort of thing that couldn’t happen now, but in the Revolution Molly Corbin and Molly Pitcher were first-rate cannoneers Read >>
The Camera Opens Its Eye On America | December 1956
A special supplement prepared for American Heritage Read >>
The Music Of The Puritans | December 1956
A cultivated and subtle musical art form nourished the Puritans in the wilderness Read >>
The Great Bicycle Craze | December 1956
If its day was brief, it raised the hem, leveled the classes, and widened a generation’s horizons Read >>
The Remarkable American Count | December 1956
Brilliant Benjamin Thompson won world fame as Count Rumford the scientist but never dispelled his countrymen’s suspicions Read >>
The Man Who Discovered America | December 1956
The story of Manjiro, the shipwrecked waif; of the kindly captain from Fairhaven; and of how Japan, hidden away from the world, learned strange news of other lands Read >>

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