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March 1988

13 years ago By admin

Volume

39

Issue

2

1788 Two Hundred Years Ago 1863 One Hundred and Twenty-five Years Ago 1888 One Hundred Years Ago 1913 Seventy-five Years Ago 1938 Fifty Years Ago 1963 Twenty-five Years Ago

Stories published from "March 1988"

A National Monument To The Great Depression

Authored by: Ivan E. Prall

You probably haven’t seen it, but it’s out by the tracks of the Chicago & North Western

Boston Rolls On

Authored by: The Editors

The nation’s first subway system was launched here in 1897.

Windows On Another Time

Authored by: Oliver Jensen

A man who has spent his life helping transform old photos from agreeable curiosities into a vital historical tool explains their magical power to bring the past into the present

How History Made The Constitution

Authored by: Hiller B. Zobel

Every one of the Founding Fathers was a historian—a historian who believed that only history could protect us from tyranny and coercion. In their reactions to the long, bloody pageant of the English past, we can see mirrored the framers’ intent.

Dusting Off America’s First Dinosaur

Authored by: Richard C. Ryder

It was discovered in New Jersey in 1858, was made into full-size copies sent as far away as Edinburgh, and had a violent run-in with Boss Tweed in 1871. Now, after fifty years out of view, the ugly brute can be seen in Philadelphia.

The Rattle-Snake As A Symbol Of America

Authored by: Benjamin Franklin

Only one man would have had the wit, the audacity, and the self-confidence to make the case

Where The Media Critics Went Wrong

Authored by: Walter Karp

The early critics of television predicted the new medium would make Americans passively obedient to the powers that be. But they badly underestimated us.

Forts Of The Americas

Authored by: Jack Rudolph

On their weathered stone battlements can
be read the whole history of the three-century
struggle for supremacy in the New World

The Greatest Diarist

Authored by: Daniel Aaron

George Templeton Strong was not a public man, and he is not widely known today. But for forty years he kept the best diary—in both historic and literary terms—ever written by an American.

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