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1999

Stories Published in this Year

1949 Fifty Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

The Red Scare

1899 One Hundred Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

When Does a Century Start?

1799 Two Hundred Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

The Death of Washington

It’s one in a billion.

Why were 20 wounded American soldiers released on Thanksgiving in 1950, days before the Chinese attacked in Korea?

When the Japanese government vehicle came to a stop, I saw an elderly and frail-looking man in the back seat. It was Emperor Hirohito.

Rebellion in New Hampshire

“Our Big Time” | November 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 7)

THE FILMMAKER, who has just finished a documentary on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, believes what the two women achieved was nothing less than the largest social transformation in American history

People Of Prgress | November 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 7)

The artist EDWARD SOREL updates for our century a classic view of Americans who changed the world

Americans have been launching time capsules into the future for over a century now, and, today, we’re creating more than ever. Why is it that so few reach their destination? And that so many merely bore their recipients?

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