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The Thankless Task Of Nicholas Trist

Author: Richard M. Ketchum

You are conducting secret peace talks with the enemy in the midst of an unpopular and interminable foreign war. The American field commander is throwing every obstacle in your path. Then, just as the talks are getting somewhere, the President orders you home. What do you do now?

The American Heritage Society Awards

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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS

"Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead!—"

Author: Arthur B. Tourtellot

Death, hunger, disease, and suffering from bitter cold or sweltering heat were common experiences on the dozen British prison ships in New York harbor during the Revolution.

Graven Images

Author: Avon Neal

Sermons in Stones

A Clean Break With The Past

Author: John Brooks

“In terms of change in American attitudes and American values, these last five years have surely been the crucial ones in the quarter century since V-J Day. And these changes seem of such a magnitude that every American except the very young, the very empty, and the very enclosed must now, to some extent, feel himself a foreigner in his native land”

How To Run An Empire

Author: Jonathan Aitken

From John Bull to Uncle Sam:

Aunt Clara’s Luminous World

Author: John Graves

The “memory paintings” of a lady now ninety-four celebrate the life of rural Texas as it was when she grew up there

A Mission For Mr. Wedgwood

Author: Hensleigh C. Wedgwood