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American Heritage MagazineSeptember 1998    Volume 49, Issue 5
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CHARTING THE CENTURY


Not long ago I was lecturing in my course on medical history about people who had accused themselves of smearing feces on a crucifix or committing some equally sacrilegious act. In fact their beliefs had been delusional. They had done nothing of the kind, but one manifestation of their illness was this untrue self-reproach.

After the lecture an older student, a woman in her thirties, came up to me and said, “I’d like to talk to you.”

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Feature Stories 
 
“Little Colonel Funston”
That’s what the newspapers called him, and he spent an increasingly reckless career trying to edit out the adjective. But even winning a war single-handed didn’t do it.
by Mark C. Carnes
The Gospel According to Eve
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s sardonic protofeminist commentary on the Bible cost her the leadership of the suffragist movement.
by Cullen Murphy
Terror Bound
The monarch of all amusement devices is beautiful to look at and exhilarating to ride. Even so, roller coasters nearly died out in America before recent events brought them surging back.
by David Lindsay
The American Century
The English journalist Harold Evans has spent more than a decade preparing a book on this country’s role in the most eventful hundred years ever. He liked what he found enough to become an American himself.
An Interview by Kevin Baker
 
 
 
Departments 
 
Letter From the Editor
Summing Up
The Novel of the Century: William Faulkner’s greatest work, a bitter epic of violence and despair and longing.
by Alfred Kazin
In the News
Bread and Butter; Bread and Roses: What should a union offer its members?
by Bernard A. Weisberger
The Business of America
The People’s Banker: The son of an Italian immigrant built the largest privately held bank in the world.
by John Steele Gordon
History Happened Here
Richmond’s Other Heroes: African-American history in the cradle of the Confederacy.
by Atiya Butler
My Brush With History
The Great Hurricane. The Private Jack Benny. A Fair Country Cook Meets the President. Straight Flush.
by the Readers
The Time Machine
by Frederic D. Schwarz
 
 
 
 
 

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