Summer 2009

Volume 59 , Issue 2

9 years ago By admin

DEPARTMENTS

FEATURES

For all his previous successes, President Herbert Hoover proved incapable of arresting the economic free fall of the Depression— or soothing the fears of a distressed nation

William E. Leuchtenburg

Wilderness Ordeal

Two hundred and fifty years ago, Major Robert Rogers and his rangers launched a daring wilderness raid against an enemy village, but paid a steep price

John F. Ross

Shipwrecked History: Spanish Ships Found In Pensacola Harbor

A hurricane sank a fleet in Pensacola Bay 450 years ago, dooming the first major European attempt to colonize North America, a story that archaeologists are just now fleshing out

John E. Worth

Surviving Bataan

After living through America’s worst defeat in World War II and the infamous death march, Army Private Ben Steele started drawing pictures of the images that haunted him.

Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman

Play Ball!

In baseball's earliest years, players beaned baserunners and often had to flout town laws prohibiting the game

Harry Katz