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A city where the desert is everywhere, where sprawl into magnificent desolation is the main industry, whose oldest building is still its most beautiful, whose surrounding mountains are its soul: Lawrence W. Cheek explains why American Heritage’s Great American Place Award for the year 2000 goes to… Read >>
IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL OUR NATIONAL STORY ON TELEVISION, EVEN IF YOU’VE GOT 13 HOURS AT YOUR DISPOSAL. THREE PEOPLE WHO DID IT EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY. Read >>
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A Shifting Tide in Korea Read >>
The Court-martial of Billy Mitchell Read >>
Old-style politics and the death of Edgar Allan Poe Read >>
A couple of big mistakes in developing our own SST turned out to save us from commercial disaster. Read >>
The high-tech wonder of 1914, now out of American hands, helps keep the high-tech world of 2000 moving. Read >>
A once-sleepy Southwestern city that has exploded into a metropolis, Austin fights to retain the best of its past. Read >>

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