1994

An Interview with Walter Cronkite

A wide range of historians, writers, and public figures reflect on “the most important, or interesting, or overlooked way in which America has changed"

You’ve probably never heard of them, but these ten people changed your life. Each of them is a big reason why your world today is so different from anyone’s world in 1954.

Cajun Country
Don’t Drop the Potato

River of Steel: The Building of the New York City Subway

Remembering Main Street
An American Album

In a sordid new biography, the great blues singer’s life has eclipsed her art.

An American Heritage veteran looks at our first year to see what four decades have done to our subject.

America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult, and there were plenty of shadows, along with the sunshine.

Code Name: The Long Sobbing
The Allies, the Axis, and the Victims: An Anthology From D-Day to V-E Day