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Frederick E. Allen

Frederick E. Allen is the Leadership Editor of Forbes.com.  He was a long-time editor of American Heritage, and the Editor of Invention & Technology from 1984 to 2007. 

Articles by this Author

How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First President
Soft Drink, October 2005 | Vol. 56, No. 5
The story of Chicago in the nineteenth century is the story of the making of America, Donald L. Miller says. A new PBS documentary based on a book he wrote shows why.
AND WHY YOURS IS MESSIER THAN EVER
HIGH TECHNOLOGY WELCOMES US INTO THE PAST
TODAY’S OLYMPIC SKI CENTER IS YESTERDAY’S RUGGED AND RAGGED SILVER MINING CAPITAL
How our technologies are still our allies
DID A COMPANY AND A MACHINE SPAWN EVIL?
WILLIAM HEWLETT AND THE BIRTH OF SILICON VALLEY
WHY THE TROUBLE IN FLORIDA WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN
COMPUTERS THAT COULD THINK WERE ONCE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. NOW THEY’RE FAR OFF.
The high-tech wonder of 1914—now out of American hands—helps keep the high-tech world of 2000 moving
And other high-tech debacles and how we learned to cope with them
And why it has to
And why is it not really so different from patenting anything else?
Beyond the myth of ever-faster high-tech change and radical new breaks from the past
America’s very first alpine ski resort—they invented the chair lift there—is still as good as it gets
Bourbon whiskey has had a long, rugged ride from the frontier to the top shelf
Working for a magazine is the perfect job for a dilettante, a dabbler in history
Fascinating legal cases such as Hawkins v. McGee are known to lawyers across the land—and to almost nobody else.
After standing in New York Harbor for nearly one hundred years, this thin-skinned but sturdy lady needs a lot of attention. She’s getting it -- from a crack team of French and American architects and engineers.

"WEB ONLY STORIES" BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

American Heritage celebrates the baby-boom generation with the cover story of its October issue, “Boomer Century,” which will appear as the main feature on AmericanHeritage.com next Tuesday, October 25. The article’s subtitle asks, “What’s going to happen when the most prosperous, best-educated…
I just received the following correspondence from David Lander, a friend of and frequent contributor to American Heritage, and thought I'd share it: “Joshua Zeitz, in his piece on The Jazz Singer that went up on AmericanHeritage.com on October 6, refers to the assimilationist aspirations of the…