Coming Up In American Heritage

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February/March 1991

13 years ago By admin

Volume

42

Issue

1

On the road again Links with history Loyalist refuge Billy the Kid country Plus …

Stories published from "February/March 1991"

Prescott’s War

Authored by: Morley Safer

A civilian adventurer gave us the best artist’s record of America in Vietnam.

John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim

Authored by: Richard Sloan

When William Withers, Jr., stepped up to the conductor’s podium at Ford’s Theatre that April evening, he believed the greatest triumph of his career was just a few minutes away

Understanding The S&L Mess

Authored by: John Steele Gordon

At its roots lie fundamental tensions that have bedeviled American banking since the nation began

It Was Bad Last Time Too: The Crédit Mobilier Scandal of 1872

Authored by: Roy Hoopes

In a classic model of government corruption, the promoters placed shares of the company's stock “where it will do most good"—in the pockets of key Congressmen

A Black American In The Paris Salon

Authored by: Sharon Kay Skeel

In an age when the best black artists were lucky to exhibit their work at state fairs, Henry Ossawa Tanner was accepted by the most selective jury in France

Father Of The Forests

Authored by: T. H. Watkins

Ninety years ago a highborn zealot named Gifford Pinchot knew more about woodlands than any man in America. What he did about them changed the country we live in and helped define environmentalism.

Lumbering Before Pinchot

Authored by: Jack Waugh

The short, loud death of Canaan Valley

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