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Featured Articles
The American Heritage
Author: Christine Gibson
A ranking of the forty wealthiest Americans of all time (Surprise: Only three of them are alive today)
The Case Of The Vanishing Locomotive
Author: Robert Thayer
. . . and the birth of the railroad revolution in America. A mystery solved.
Memphis
Author: Thomas Childers
A gracious antebellum city of stern-wheelers and cotton money; a restless, violent city with a hot grain of genius at its heart; a city of calamity, desolation, and rebirth; a city that changed the way the whole world hears music. It’s all the same city, and it is this year’s Great American Place. Thomas Childers answers a summons to Memphis, Tennessee.
The Tragedy of the Commons
Author: John Steele Gordon
The fate of the codfish suggests that collectivism on the ownership level is as destructive as anywhere else
In Memoriam: Henry Steele Commager
Author: Oliver Jensen
The great storyteller and famed historian lent authority and good advice to our aspiring magazine