Essays

Title Author Issue
The Birdmen At Belmont Park
 Naughton, Thomas April 1956
The Myth Of The Happy Yeoman
 Hofstadter, Richard April 1956
General Lee’s Unsolved Problem
 Dowdey, Clifford April 1955
Sidewheeler For Shelburne
 Hill, Ralph April 1955
Eli Whitney: Nemesis Of The South
 Whitridge, Arnold April 1955
The Peales
 Jensen, Oliver April 1955
The Memoirs Of Frederick T. Gates
 Gates, Frederick April 1955
Genealogy Of Peales
 Themselves, April 1955
The Great Love in the Life of Emily Dickinson
 Johnson, Thomas April 1955
Seeing And Hearing History
 Tyrrell, William April 1955
News Of History
 Powell, William April 1955
Are There Too Many New Deal Diaries?
 Freidel, Frank April 1955
Big Guns For Washington
 Perry, Clay April 1955
Was America Discovered Before Columbus?
 Josephy, Alvin April 1955
The Letter That Bought An Empire
 April 1955
The Way To The Big Sea Water
 Havighurst, Walter April 1955
The Man Who Gave Away Rockefeller’s Millions
 April 1955
A Postscript By Allan Nevins
 April 1955
Frederick T. Gates And John D. Rockefeller
 Nevins, Allan April 1955
The Last War Cruise Of Old Ironsides
 Turner, Lynn April 1955
“To Open The Door”
 Eisenhower, Milton April 1955
America is Exceptional, But...
Forgotten Fight Against Racist Constitutions
Will there be no Jackie Kennedy for Hotel Pennsylvania?
Undercover in the KKK
A Nation of Immigrants 
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
“Irish Need Not Apply”
The War on Catholics
American Heritage Announces Audio Books
Drake Discovers California
The Most Misunderstood Americans
The "Big" History of America
Saved by The Poison Squad
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
The Deadly Raid on Deerfield
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Lewis & Clark Were Lost
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Grant Takes on the Klan
Renewing America’s Civic Education
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
When the Senate Was Great
Gary Hart's Monkey Business
Marguerite Gifford, Artist of Travel
Annie at Tinker Creek
Dump the Veep?
The Real Woodstock
What Makes America Exceptional
The Genius of America: “Suffering, Struggle and Sacrifice”
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
King Charles Forces the Puritans to America
Off to the Klondike
The Leader Emerges
Delete Now
The Day We Shot Down The U-2