THE TIME MACHINE

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October/November 1983

14 years ago By admin

Volume

34

Issue

6

1683 Three Hundred Years Ago 1883 One Hundred Years Ago 1908 Seventy-five Years Ago

Stories published from "October/November 1983"

The New View Of Reconstruction

Authored by: Eric Foner

Whatever you were taught or thought you knew about the post-Civil War era is probably wrong in the light of recent study

They Didn’t Know What Time It Was

Authored by: William Peirce Randel

On November 18, 1883, the nation finally settled on the method of synchronizing all clocks that we call standard time. Why did it take so long to figure that one out?

Images Of A Lifetime

Authored by: The Editors

For almost four decades, Marshall Davidson, who pioneered a new genre of illustrated history, has worked with many thousands of pieces of American art. Out of them all he now selects fourteen images that have particularly enchanted him .

Not Forgetting May Be The Only Heroism Of The Survivor”

Authored by: The Editors

Years after one of the bloodiest and most intense battles of the war in the Pacific, a Marine Corps veteran returns to Tarawa

The Man Who Planned The Victory

Authored by: Keith E. Eiler

An Interview With Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer

On Omaha Beach

Authored by: Charles Cawthon

Along this narrow stretch of sand, all the painstaking plans for the Normandy invasion fell apart. One of the men who was lucky enough to make it past the beachhead recalls a day of fear, chaos, grief—and triumph.

“yes, By Damn, We’re Going Back To Berlin”

Authored by: Lester F. Rentmeester

After two false starts, the B-17s got through. A pilot relives the 8th Air Force’s first successful daylight raid on the German capital .

Ploesti: A Pilot's Diary

Authored by: Lewis N. Ellis

A thousand miles behind enemy lines, Liberator bombers struck Hitler’s Rumanian oil refineries, then headed home flying so low that some came back with cornstalks in their bomb bays

What’s Happening In History

Authored by: John A. Garraty

Over any extended period of time, the state of historical thinking about the great national topics changes in both subtle and dramatic ways. New facts and interpretations are being debated, written about, and taught. To keep you informed, AMERICAN HERITAGE introduces the first of a series.

Churchill’s Dream

Authored by: Pamela C. Harriman

The great man’s daughter-in-law draws a portrait of the statesman at the top of his career and at the bottom

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