Coming Up In American Heritage

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November 1991

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Volume

42

Issue

7

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Stories published from "November 1991"

Credit Card America

Authored by: Nancy Shepherdson

How we became a nation of instant, constant borrowers

The Parson’s Hearth

Authored by: Alexander O. Boulton

A rare survivor of New England’s earliest days testifies to the strength that forged a nation.

Memory as History

Authored by: Richard M. Ketchum

Seeking the truth of an event in the memories of the people who lived it can be a maddening and exhilarating task.

1841 One Hundred And Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

California Dreaming

1916 Seventy-five Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Literary Vagabond

1941 Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

The Conversation

The Conversion of Harry Truman

Authored by: William E. Leuchtenburg

A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.

I Fought for Fidel

Authored by: Neill Macaulay

In the twilight of Castro’s regime, one of the soldiers who put him in power recalls what it was like to be a fidelista up in the hills four decades ago when a whole new, just, democratic world was there for the building.