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  1. Forts Of The Americas

    By Jack Rudolph, March 1988, Volume 39, Issue 2

    On their weathered stone battlements can be read the whole history of the three-century struggle for supremacy in the New World More >>>

  2. Time Machine

    By Frederic D. O'Brien, June/July 2002, Volume 53, Issue 3

    25 YEARS AGO June 7, 1977 An ordinance in Dade County, Florida, that prohibits discrimination in housing against homosexuals is repealed, largely through the efforts of the singer and orange j More >>>

  3. When Dismal Swamps Became Priceless Wetlands

    By William B. Meyer, May/June 1994, Volume 45, Issue 3

    American attitudes toward them have taken a 180-degree turn over the last century—and so have the battles they provoke More >>>

  4. Jamestown Hangs In The Balance

    By James Horn, Winter 2010, Volume 59, Issue 4

    Only by luck and happenstance did Britain’s first permanent settlement in the New World survive More >>>

  5. Presidio Santa Maria De Galve

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    This Spanish site, dating from 1698, was the first area made into a permanent settlement in Pensacola. The University of West Florida has turned the site into an outdoor exhibit, complete with a recre More >>>

  6. Ancient City

    By Carla Davidson, February/March 2001, Volume 52, Issue 1

    ST. AUGUSTINE, SETTLED IN 1565, FLAUNTS ITS SPANISH ORIGINS More >>>

  7. The Elizabethans And America

    By A. L. Rowse, April 1959, Volume 10, Issue 3

    “To push back the consciousness of American beginnings, beyond Jamestown, beyond the Pilgrims, to the highwater mark of the Elizabethan Age” -- Part One of a New Series. More >>>

  8. The Longest Walk: David Ingram’s Amazing Journey

    By Charlton Ogburn, April/May 1979, Volume 30, Issue 3

    He was the first Englishman to give a detailed description of the North American wilderness. Was it a pack of lies? More >>>

  9. “By Chaos Out Of Dream”

    By Wallace Stegner, February/March 1981, Volume 32, Issue 2

    An exploration into the exploration of America More >>>

  10. One Englishman’s America

    By John Keegan, February/March 1996, Volume 47, Issue 1

    A distinguished military historian’s forty-year quest to plumb our essential mystery: the “secret of a way of life different from any other lived on earth” More >>>

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