May 2023

Volume 68 , Issue 3

DEPARTMENTS

EDITOR'S LETTER

Announcing: The National Historical Society

Edwin S. Grosvenor

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

Gun Rights in America

Edwin S. Grosvenor

Issues By Year

2023

Winter 2023 (Volume: 68 | Issue: 1)

Spring 2023 (Volume: 68 | Issue: 2)

May 2023 (Volume: 68 | Issue: 3)

2022

Winter 2022 (Volume: 67 | Issue: 1)

Spring 2022 (Volume: 67 | Issue: 2)

Summer 2022 (Volume: 67 | Issue: 3)

FEATURES

Announcing: The National Historical Society

Edwin S. Grosvenor

Samuel Adams Starts a Revolution

Enlisting an army of alter egos, Adams used the Boston press to make the case for American independence and to orchestrate a burgeoning rebellion.

Stacy Schiff

Sam Adams or Sacred Cod?

We debated whether to name our new beer for the state symbol of Massachusetts or a favorite Boston patriot.

Jim Koch

Government Shutdowns: How We Got Here

Today’s budget wars would be unrecognizable to earlier generations of Americans. A veteran reporter on government looks at the history of shutdowns and battles over the budget.

Charles S. Clark

Gun Rights in America

Some of the most important essays on gun rights, gun culture, and the meaning of the Second Amendment have appeared in American Heritage over the last 50 years.

Edwin S. Grosvenor

Did Johnny Come Marching Home With PTSD?

The horrors of the Civil War led to madness and suicide among many soldiers and veterans, but comparisons to modern diagnoses of PTSD are difficult.

David O. Stewart

Art Buchwald’s Funny Business

His political satire made Buchwald one of America’s most widely read columnists.

Michael Hill

I Was a Marine

Art Buchwald recalled how the Marine Corps tried to make a man out of him during World War II. Years later, he poignantly reunited with the drill instructor who had disciplined him day and night.

Art Buchwald

Alice in Autoland

Few roads were even paved when Alice Ramsey and three friends became the first women to drive coast to coast in 1909.

Bruce Watson