Issue
February/March 1992, Volume 43, No.1
Featured Articles
The Diamond Jubilee of Jazz
Author: John McDonough
75 years ago this month, a not-especially-good band cut a record that transformed our culture.
What Should We Teach Our Children About American History?
Author: Fredric Smoler
The fiercest struggle going on in education is about who owns the past. Passionate multi-culturalists say that traditional history- teaching has brushed out minority ethnic identities. Their opponents say that radical multi-culturalism leads toward national fragmentation.
America and Russia, Americans and Russians
Author: John Lukacs
The Cold War was an anomaly. More often than not, the world’s two greatest states have lived together in uneasy amity. And what now?
Groping Toward Democracy
Author: Harrison E. Salisbury
The Russians claim they want to be more like us, but do they have any idea who we are?
The First Kansas Colored
Author: Glenn L. Carle
They were the first black men to fight in the Civil War. They were the first to serve alongside whites. And they were the first to die.