Coming Up In American Heritage

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December 1992

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Volume

43

Issue

8

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Stories published from "December 1992"

Fortress America

Authored by: Alexander O. Boulton

A Romanesque mansion in Chicago was built to forbid outsiders, while providing a warm welcome to guests.

1842 One Hundred And Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Raise the Baton

1867 One Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Patrons of Husbandry

1917 Seventy-five Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Good-bye, Whiskey, Good-bye, Gin

1942 Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Faces of the Enemy

The Radical Revolution

Authored by: Fredric Smoler

For years, people have argued that France had the real revolution and that ours was mild by comparison. But now, a powerful new book argues that the American Revolution was the most sweeping in all history. It alone established a pure commercial culture that makes America the universal society we are today.

The Home Front

Authored by: Oliver Jensen

The American Revolution was in fact a bitter civil war, and a remarkable book offers us perhaps the most intimate picture we have of what it was like for the ordinary people who got caught in its terrible machinery.

Private Flohr’s America

Authored by: Robert A. Selig

From Newport to Yorktown and the battle that won the war: A German foot soldier who fought for American independence tells all about it in a newly discovered memoir.

Cigarette Century

Authored by: John A. Meyer

In the past 70 years, while several major diseases have been eradicated, one has risen from obscurity to take its place among the nation’s leading killers.

Our Checkered Past

Authored by: Edward Sorel

A fond ride through the bright high noon and on into the sad twilight of the American taxicab

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