Essays

Title Author Issue
Heifetz On Wheels
 August/September 1986
Coming Up
 August/September 1986
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Blighted Life of the Writer, Circa 1840
 Sheppard, Carol August/September 1986
Time Machine
 Ide, Karolyn August/September 1986
1786 Two Hundred Years Ago
 Ide, Karolyn August/September 1986
Arctic Dreams: Imagination And Desire In A Northern Landscape
 August/September 1986
Gods of Pennsylvania Station
 Diehl, Lorraine August/September 1986
Editors’ Bookshelf
 August/September 1986
Military Vs. Civilian
 August/September 1986
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The High Art of George Hadfield
 Walker, John August/September 1986
Military Vs. Civilian
 August/September 1986
Not Yet Obsolete
 August/September 1986
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
The Toughest Flying in the World
 Rhodes, Richard August/September 1986
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Positively the Last Word on Baseball
 Morison, Elting August/September 1986
The Language Of The American South
 August/September 1986
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
“A Fair, Honorable, and Legitimate Trade”
 Grant, Frederic August/September 1986
Edison’s Electric Light: Biography Of An Invention
 August/September 1986
Perfection Salad: Women And Cooking At The Turn Of The Century
 August/September 1986
Symbols Of America
 August/September 1986
Holmes’s Obsession
 August/September 1986
Song Of Calumet
 August/September 1986
Disastrous Test
 August/September 1986
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
The Big Picture of the Great Depression
 Garraty, John August/September 1986
Franklin Of Philadelphia
 August/September 1986
Ike Liker
 August/September 1986
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
”…to Thy Jubilee Throng”
 Fiel, Gerard August/September 1986
America From Drake’s Quarterdeck
 August/September 1985
Why We Didn’t Use Poison Gas in World War II
 Bernstein, Barton August/September 1985
The Sound Of Silents
 Boiler,, Paul August/September 1985
The Battle for Grant’s Tomb
 Harris, Neil August/September 1985
Roanoke Lost
 Kupperman, Karen August/September 1985
Views Of A New World
 August/September 1985
V-J, 1945
 Dobell, Byron August/September 1985
The Man Who Made The Yanquis Go Home
 Bain, David August/September 1985
The Power Of Homely Detail
 Stegner, Wallace August/September 1985
Made In Philadelphia
 Kinkel, Kenneth August/September 1985
Landing At Tokyo Bay
 Squires, Vernon August/September 1985
Master of Business Historians
 Baida, Peter August/September 1985
When Presidents Tell It Their Way
 Ward, Geoffrey August/September 1985
In Praise Of Pierce
 Morison, Elting August/September 1985
Coupon Lure
 August/September 1985
Book Notes
 August/September 1985
Coming Up In American Heritage
 August/September 1985
The Time Machine
 Ide, Karolyn August/September 1985
East Meets Western
 Wynd, Oswald August/September 1985
In The Pit
 Lass, Abraham August/September 1985
Correspondence
 August/September 1985
Cold Confusion
 August/September 1985
Ingersoll Admirer
 August/September 1985
Southern Cable
 August/September 1985