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American Heritage MagazineJune/July 1982    Volume 33, Issue 4
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When AMERICAN HERITAGE heard that Richard Reeves had undertaken to follow the route, one hundred and fifty years later, of a classic exploration of America’s people, places, and institutions, we assigned his friend and colleague Ken Auletta to ask the kinds of questions our readers might if they had the luck to find themselves sitting next to Reeves on a flight to, say, Buffalo or Memphis. (American Journey: Traveling With Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America, by Richard Reeves, has just been published by Simon & Schuster.)

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Feature Stories 
 
A NEW, KIND OF AMERICAN PLAN
Victorian art finds a home in a New York hotel
DOES THE WEST HAVE A DEATH WISH?
The threat to over a billion acres of Western land that are irrevocably reserved for the people of the United States
by Dyan Zaslowsky
THE REST GIRL SCOUT OF THEM ALL
Meet the founder of the Girl Scouts of America
by Martha Saxton
THE WEEK THE WORLD WATCHED SELMA
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic civil rights demonstration of 1965
by Stephen B. Oates
A HERITAGE PRESERVED: AMERICA’S FIRST NATIONAL CEMETERY
Buried here, along with hundreds of congressmen and various Indian chiefs, are Mathew Brady, John Philip Sousa, and J. Edgar Hoover
by Wayne Barrett.
THE GREAT SEAL
The story of the official symbol of the United States
by E. McClung Fleming
MR. HARRIMAN REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY
Was it science, sport, or the prospect of a round-the-world railroad that sent E. H. Harriman off on his costly Alaskan excursion? Plus an interview with Averell Harriman by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in which the son recalls the father
by William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan.
“SUDDENLY, THERE WERE THE AMERICANS”
World War II through the eyes of a British schoolboy
by John Keegan
LOOKING FOR THE GOOD GERMANS
World War II through the eyes of an American assigned to sort out the guilty from the innocent
by David Davidson
CAPTAIN NEWCOMB AND THE FRAIL SISTERHOOD
A Civil War steamboat captain’s sorrowful cruise with the most destructive cargo of all
THE GREAT AMERICAN MOTEL
The foundations of a notable institution
by Paul Lancaster
 
 
 
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NOW AND THEN
What you don’t know about criminal justice
by Charles E. Silberman
AMERICAN CHARACTERS: F. O. MATTHIESSEN
The teacher as creative spirit
by Richard F. Snow
READERS’ ALBUM
Texas gothic
POSTSCRIPTS: MORE BATS
Dr. Campbell’s remarkable experiment
 
 
 
 
 

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