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Out of an agonizing American experience, the frail Scottish author mined a treasure and carried it away with him. Read >>

Correspondence | December 1988

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How America Helped Build the Soviet Machine | December 1988

To bring their nation to the leading edge of technology, Soviet leaders are turning to the United States. Their grandfathers did the same thing. Read >>

The Compleat Hero | December 1988

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New Dispensation | December 1988

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Germ Warfare, 1763 | December 1988

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Trainmaster | December 1988

When he’s not taking care of a majestic marshaling of toy trains, Graham Claytor gets to play with the real thing. Read >>

Premature Championship | December 1988

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Letters To The Editor | Spring/Summer 2008

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Treasures from Our Archives | Spring/Summer 2008

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Letters To The Editor | Fall 2008

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First Images of the New World | Fall 2008

“Lost Colony” Governor John White’s Early Paintings Colored European Views for Centuries. Read >>

Letters To The Editor | Winter 2009

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Letters To The Editor | Spring 2009

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Editor’s Letter | Fall 2009

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Letters To The Editor | Fall 2009

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Monticello Reborn | Fall 2009

Jefferson’s home finally gets its own museum and educational center. Read >>

Grave Matters | Fall 2009

Two centuries after his death, explorer Meriwether Lewis finally gets a funeral and well-deserved honors. Read >>

Lombardi Rules | Fall 2009

Fifty years ago, Vince Lombardi took over the Green Bay Packers and revolutionized the game of football Read >>

Get Out Your Photographs! | Fall 2009

Producer Thomas Allen Harris is launching a web initiative that seeks to digitize, archive, and interpret thousands of African-American photographs that have, until now, been hidden in attics and shoeboxes. Read >>

An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson, by Andro Linklater | Fall 2009

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No Quarter: The Battle of The Crater, 1864, by Richard Slotkin | Fall 2009

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Drake's Rock Oil | Winter 2010

No one knew that oil could come from the ground until a bankrupt group of speculators hit pay dirt in northwestern Pennsylvania. Read >>

The Pluck Heard 'Round the World | Winter 2010

Alexander Graham Bell was able to invent the telephone in 1875 after Thomas Watson tweaked a reed that transmitted sounds to the next room. Read >>

Letters To The Editor | Winter 2010

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JFK Writes about Our Nation’s Memory | Winter 2010

In 1962, the president wrote for American Heritage that the study of history is no mere pastime, but the means by which a nation establishes its sense of identity and purpose. Read >>

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