1997

February/March 1997

Stories Published in this Year

1822
One Hundred And Seventy-five Years Ago | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

Out off Africa!

1847
One Hundred And Fifty Years Ago | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

Lincoln and Thoreau Get Pious

1922
Seventy-five Years Ago | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

Aimée and Coué Improve Your Life

1947Fifty Years Ago | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

The Transistor

1947Fifty Years Ago | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

The Kinsey Report

Finding My 11-Year-Old Self in a Historic Book | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

A LIFETIME AGO, A QUIET STRANGER passed through the author’s hometown and came away with a record of both personal and national importance.

The Electrocution of Luigi Storti | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

Can it be fair? Humane? Does it deter crime? These very current questions troubled Americans just as much in the day of the Salem witch trials as in the day of Timothy McVeigh.

Confessions of a British Invader | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

He was in the vanguard of that wave of young Britons who, in the 1960s, stormed our shores and gave us back our musical heritage.

Asleep at the Switchboard During the Trinity Test | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

The super-secret atomic bomb made a giant, bright yellow fireball like a super-sun that hurt the eyes.

Early Color TV | December 1997 (Volume: 48, Issue: 8)

In the Navy, we found parts to make a color television in 1946. Anything to watch the heavyweight championship.

1997

Stories Published in this Year

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