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February/March 2004

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Volume

55

Issue

1

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Stories published from "February/March 2004"

George Washington Drank Here

Authored by: The Editors

THE FIRST PRESIDENT’S DISTILLERY WILL MAKE WHISKEY ONCE AGAIN

Transister Radios

Authored by: The Editors

The Buyable Past

Telling The Seabee Story

Authored by: The Editors

An often overlooked branch of the Navy plans a big new museum

Happy Hour At The Shack Up Inn

Authored by: The Editors

For blues lovers, an authentic sharecropper’s shack—with all the modern conveniences

Why Do We Say That?

Authored by: Hugh Rawson

“Cowboy”

Worlds Behind Class

Authored by: The Editors

A new look at Joseph Cornell’s enclosed masterpieces

Screenings

Authored by: Allen Barra

Gods and Generals

The Spirit Of ’76

Authored by: David Hackett Fischer

It wasn’t just tenacity in the face of military disaster, it was the powerful fusion of strengths that Americans had long nurtured—and that could now give them a nation

What Happened in the Gulf of Tonkin?

Authored by: Mike Mclaughlin

Forty years ago, the USS Maddox fought the first battle of America’s longest war. How it happened—and even if it happened—are still fiercely debated.

A History of Plastic Surgery

Authored by: Ellen Feldman

Cosmetic surgery was born 2500 years ago and came of age in the inferno of the Western Front. The controversy about it is still growing.