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  1. Capsule History

    By Lester A. Reingold, November 1999, Volume 50, Issue 7

    Americans have been launching time capsules into the future for over a century now, and today we’re creating more than ever. Why is it that so few reach their destination? And that so many merely bore their recipients? More >>>

  2. FDR’s Extra Burden

    By Bernard Asbell, June 1973, Volume 24, Issue 4

    WHAT POLIOMYELITIS MEANT TO A POLITICAL CAREER More >>>

  3. The Man Who Killed Custer

    By Stanley Vestal, February 1957, Volume 8, Issue 2

    To Stanley Vestal, the old Sioux warrior White Bull describes the day when he counted his greatest coup More >>>

  4. The Battle Of The Little Bighorn

    By Nathaniel Philbrick, Spring 2010, Volume 60, Issue 1

    Fate brought Custer and Sitting Bull together one bloody June evening at the Little Bighorn—and marked the end of the Wild West More >>>

  5. Builders For The Carriage Trade

    By Harrison Kinney, October 1956, Volume 7, Issue 6

    The Brewsters spanned an era and spanned it with style More >>>

  6. The President’s Best Friend

    By David Michaelis, June/july 1983, Volume 34, Issue 4

    If he’d been the closest companion of the president of IBM, you might happen across his name in a privately printed memoir. But LeMoyne Billings was John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s best friend from Choate to the White House—and that makes him part of history. More >>>

  7. American Civilians Defend Against U-Boats

    By Timothy Gay, Spring 2020, Volume 65, Issue 2

    In 1942, over a quarter of a million ordinary citizens volunteered to help defend our country as Nazi submarines terrorized the East Coast and Caribbean waters, sinking fuel tankers and cargo ships with near impunity. More >>>

  8. Jackson’s Fight With The ‘Money Power’

    By Bray Hammond, June 1956, Volume 7, Issue 4

    The third in a series on TIMES OF TRIAL IN AMERICAN STATECRAFT Old Hickory's attack on Biddle's bank had some unexpected consequences More >>>

  9. “A Set of Mere Money-Getters”?

    By Allan Nevins, June 1963, Volume 14, Issue 4

    Were the great business tycoons of the nineteenth century only that? A distinguished historian says no—most emphatically More >>>

  10. In Search of “Black Jack” Pershing

    By Gene Smith, Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue, Volume 63, Issue 3

    A noted historian recalls how he came to learn about the five-star general who led American forces to victory in World War I, and the sacrifices made by his family. More >>>

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