Issue
Featured Articles
“My God, What An Act To Follow!”
Author: Fred Anderson
LOCKED IN A STRANGE, TESTY COLLABORATION lit by the fires of a burning world, George M. Cohan and James Cagney produced a masterpiece of popular history in which everything is true except the facts
Playing With Fire
Author: Jack Kelly
WHAT LASTS a couple of seconds, ravishes the eye, and calms the soul? Americans have known since 1608.
The Truth About The Lincoln Bedroom “too Ricketty To Venerate”
Author: Harold Holzer
“There Is Something about a Martini”
Author: Max Rudin
IT’S MORE THAN JUST A POTENT DRINK, AND MORE THAN THE INSPIRATION FOR SOME HANDSOME ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT. IT IS MODERN TIMES, BROUGHT TO YOU IN A BEAUTIFUL CHALICE.
Making Sense of the Fourth of July
Author: Pauline Maier
The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it—and that is why we celebrate it
Lifeline To A Sinking Continent
Author: Robert James Maddox
American self-interest was involved, of course, but the Marshall Plan remains what some have referred to as a rare example of “power used to its best end.”