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Not The Brooklyn Bridge
Author: Richard F. Snow
It was built by Roebling, connects two cities, is a landmark of American engineering, and looks just like it but is…
They Didn’t Know What Time It Was
Author: William Peirce Randel
On November 18, 1883, the nation finally settled on the method of synchronizing all clocks that we call standard time. Why did it take so long to figure that one out?
A Rational Geographic Quiz
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Images Of A Lifetime
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For almost four decades, Marshall Davidson, who pioneered a new genre of illustrated history, has worked with many thousands of pieces of American art. Out of them all he now selects fourteen images that have particularly enchanted him .
Not Forgetting May Be The Only Heroism Of The Survivor”
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Years after one of the bloodiest and most intense battles of the war in the Pacific, a Marine Corps veteran returns to Tarawa
On Omaha Beach
Author: Charles Cawthon
Along this narrow stretch of sand, all the painstaking plans for the Normandy invasion fell apart. One of the men who was lucky enough to make it past the beachhead recalls a day of fear, chaos, grief—and triumph.
“yes, By Damn, We’re Going Back To Berlin”
Author: Lester F. Rentmeester
After two false starts, the B-17s got through. A pilot relives the 8th Air Force’s first successful daylight raid on the German capital .
Ploesti: A Pilot's Diary
Author: Lewis N. Ellis
A thousand miles behind enemy lines, Liberator bombers struck Hitler’s Rumanian oil refineries, then headed home flying so low that some came back with cornstalks in their bomb bays
What’s Happening In History
Author: John A. Garraty
Over any extended period of time, the state of historical thinking about the great national topics changes in both subtle and dramatic ways. New facts and interpretations are being debated, written about, and taught. To keep you informed, AMERICAN HERITAGE introduces the first of a series.