Frederick E. Allen

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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 Contributor

The 3 Faces of George Washington | November/December 2006
How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First President Read >>
Where They Went To See The Future | March 2003
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. Read >>
From Boom To Boom | February/March 2002
TODAY’S OLYMPIC SKI CENTER IS YESTERDAY’S RUGGED AND RAGGED SILVER MINING CAPITAL Read >>
The New Time Travel | April/May 2002
HIGH TECHNOLOGY WELCOMES US INTO THE PAST Read >>
The Myth Of The Paperless Office | November/December 2002
AND WHY YOURS IS MESSIER THAN EVER Read >>
The Myth Of Artificial Intelligence | February/March 2001
COMPUTERS THAT COULD THINK WERE ONCE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. NOW THEY’RE FAR OFF. Read >>
The Voting Machine Problem | April 2001
WHY THE TROUBLE IN FLORIDA WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN Read >>
Present At The Creation | May 2001
WILLIAM HEWLETT AND THE BIRTH OF SILICON VALLEY Read >>
Hitler And IBM | July/August 2001
DID A COMPANY AND A MACHINE SPAWN EVIL? Read >>
The New Warfare And Old Truths | November/December 2001
How our technologies are still our allies Read >>
Back To The Future | May/June 2000
Beyond the myth of ever-faster high-tech change and radical new breaks from the past Read >>
Since When Can You Patent A Gene? | July/August 2000
And why is it not really so different from patenting anything else? Read >>
When Sex Drives Technological Innovation | September 2000
And why it has to Read >>
London Bridge Is Falling Down | October 2000
And other high-tech debacles and how we learned to cope with them Read >>
Panama’s Canal | November 2000
The high-tech wonder of 1914—now out of American hands—helps keep the high-tech world of 2000 moving Read >>

"Web only stories" by this contributor

The Baby Boom Today
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… Read more >>
Black Man in Blackface
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… Read more >>

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