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Featured Articles

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

F.D.R: The Last Journey

Author: James MacGregor Burns

Roosevelt, like Lincoln and Wilson, died fighting for his ideals.

Our Last Great Wilderness

Author: Walter Sullivan

America’s greed for oil has drastically upset the ecological balance of Alaska’s North Slope, and the end is not in sight

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.