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  1. Terror Bound

    By David Lindsay, September 1998, Volume 49, Issue 5

    The monarch of all amusement devices is beautiful to look at and exhilarating to ride. Even so, roller coasters nearly died out in America before recent events brought them surging back. More >>>

  2. The Honest Man

    By Peter Lyon, February 1959, Volume 10, Issue 2

    In a day of rampant money-making, gentle Peter Cooper was not only a reformer but successful, widely loved, and rich. More >>>

  3. Gold!

    By Ralph K. Andrist, December 1962, Volume 14, Issue 1

    The gold-rush letters and diaries in the margins of this article come from the extraordinary collection of California manuscripts, many hitherto unknown, assembled by Edward Eberstadt & Sons of Ne More >>>

  4. Digging Up Jamestown

    By Ivor NoËl Hume, April 1963, Volume 14, Issue 3

    Where the written word leaves off, the spade must often take over. A well-known archaeologist relates what the earth has revealed about the first permanent British colony in America More >>>

  5. A Heart’s Love For New Orleans

    By Nicholas Lemann, April 1988, Volume 39, Issue 3

    The modern city plays host to conventions and tourists, but it still retains the slightly racy charm that has always made it dear to its natives More >>>

  6. Sheaves Of Golden Grain

    By Marshall Flshwick, October 1956, Volume 7, Issue 6

    Cyrus McCormick fought hard to win the “harvester war”—and brought the machine age to America’s farms More >>>

  7. Bernard Maybeck

    By Richard Reinhardt, August/september 1981, Volume 32, Issue 5

    This puckish, nearly forgotten California architect built his own distinctive style on the simple principle that beauty alone endures More >>>

  8. 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 >>>

  9. 101 More Things Every College Graduate Should Know About American History

    By John A. Garraty, December 1987, Volume 38, Issue 8

    You Asked for It More >>>

  10. The Farm Boy And The Angel

    By Carl Carmer, October 1962, Volume 13, Issue 6

    Of sensitive, mystical Joseph Smith, of a heavenly visitor and a buried scripture, and of the founding of a new religion destined to enlist many followers and carve from the desert a new Zion More >>>

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