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.