No city in America can rival New Orleans for the number and variety of buildings from the Colonial and Antebellum era
In his last speech as president, Ike inaugurated the spirit of the 1960s.
Historians have now come around to the opinion about Ike that most of their fellow Americans held right along.
Eisenhower's call to proceed with D-Day was anything but inevitable.
The Constitution is more than a legal code. It is also a framework for union and solidarity.
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At Gettysburg 50 years after the battle, it was no longer blue and gray. In 1913, a kind of union prevailed.
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Fifty years ago, the Equal Credit Act was an important step in affording women control of their own finances.
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We weren't always welcomed home from the war. But we were good at what we did and the patients knew we mattered.
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American resistance to British authority developed with stunning speed 250 years ago in response to George III’s inflexibility.
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As president, Dwight D. Eisenhower took a moderate position on many issues, believing that “good judgment seeks balance and progress.”
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The young rockabilly star autographed each of our forearms.
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With bloody conflicts in so many hot spots around the world, we should remember that the erasures of civilizations are not mere memories from a distant past.
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Women have served in the U.S. military since the Revolution
Michael Corcoran led New York’s Irish brigade to glory in the Civil War after being disciplined for refusing to parade in honor of Britain's Prince of Wales.
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Stereotyped as the model minority, Asian Americans do not fit easily into the narrative of race in America.
John Dickinson played a pivotal role in our Nation’s founding, from the Stamp Act to ratifying the Constitution, but his contributions are largely forgotten by history.
Here are the top 20 most popular essays in American Heritage last year, as ranked by our readers.
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Sixty-five years ago, Ruby Bridges became the first Black child in the South to attend an all-white elementary school.
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The presidency of Jimmy Carter was both shaped and bracketed by energy.
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At the height of World War II, volunteer pilots with the Civil Air Patrol flew tens of thousands of missions while patrolling America's coastline for Nazi U-boats.
Carter's diplomatic legacy has endured well, though he often struggled to project a convincing aura of strength and accomplishment in office.
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Thirty years later, an Oklahoma native reflects on one of the deadliest domestic terrorist attacks in American history.
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What does history tell us about presidents who have tried to push the limits of the system?
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Before Saturday Night Live, there was "Your Show of Shows."
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The story of America is told in 11,000 essays in our archives. Here are a few of our favorites on our 75th Anniversary.
Previously unknown, a map drawn by Lord Percy, the British commander at Lexington, sheds new light on the perilous retreat to Boston 250 years ago this month.
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What began as a civil war within the British Empire continued until it became a wider conflict affecting peoples and countries across Europe and North America.
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Overshadowed in memory by Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts town of Menotomy saw the most violent and deadly fighting on April 19, 1775.
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