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Where’s Sacagawea? | December 2000

NOT IN YOUR POCKET, PROBABLY Read >>

Editors’ Bookshelf | December 2000

The Artwork That Beat The Axis | December 2000

WHAT’S THE SINGLE BEST THING WE MADE IN THE LAST 100 YEARS? Read >>

Screenings | December 2000

New Girl On The Rock | December 2000

AMERICA’S OLDEST SOFT-DRINK COMPANY PREPARES TO UNVEIL A NEW LOGO Read >>

Looking Backward | December 2000

AT CENTURY’S END, RETROSPECTIVE THOUGHTS TO ILLUMINATE THE WAY AHEAD Read >>

Sites To See | December 2000

The Parallels Between Clinton and Coolidge | December 2000

WHICH PRESIDENT WILL HISTORY COMPARE HIM MOST CLOSELY TO? Read >>

W.R. Hearst Gets His Due | December 2000

A NEW BIOGRAPHY RESCUES A GREAT INNOVATOR FROM THE SHADOW OF CITIZEN KANE. Read >>

A Berkshire Christmas | December 2000

STOCKBRIDGE MARKS THE HOLIDAYS BY SUMMONING BACK A WORLD THAT NORMAN ROCKWELL CREATED. Read >>

To Plan A Trip | December 2000

The Adventure Craze | December 2000

MORE AND MORE AMERICANS ARE PAYING A LOT OF MONEY TO PUT THEMSELVES IN MORTAL DANGER. WHY? AND WHY NOW? Read >>

The 10 Best American Adventure Books | December 2000

Why the "History Now" Section? | December 2000

The Very Sad Story of Jackie Coogan | December 2000

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. Read >>

Clinton Observed | December 2000

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

Jazz and America | December 2000

Geoffrey C. Ward, writer of a major new book and 19-hour documentary on the subject, discusses the joys and wonders of our native art form Read >>

Correspondence | December 2000

Pellagra: The Forgotten Plague | December 2000

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

Far-flung Flapper | December 2000

Ugly Money? | December 2000

Ugly Money? | December 2000

Henry George Lives | December 2000

Foul Play? | December 2000

Credit Due | December 2000

Half a Million Purple Hearts | December 2000

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

What Is A Wound? | December 2000

IN CHANGING TIMES, IT’S NOT ALWAYS CLEAR Read >>

Merry Chanukah | December 2000

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

Bomb Away | December 2000

Roundup In Quang Ngia | December 2000

SIX VIETNAM SOLDIERS GO OFF ON A VERY STRANGE ASSIGNMENT Read >>