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1 “With Malice Toward None” by Jon Meacham
Holt helped create PBS and National Public Radio before becoming chairman of American Heritage.
Sam Holt (1936-2
He became the dean of American historians after learning his craft while working for five years on the staff of American Heritage.
It was a challenging couple of months after the flood, but our office will soon be operational again.
A convenient index to the nearly 100 articles in American Heritage in 2020
In 2020 we published nearly 100 articles in nine issues, the most we have ever published in a year. Here are the articles sorted by the author of the article:
As a high school librarian, I am so pleased about your efforts to save American Heritage. I have always recommended it to our American history students for research purposes. The magazine serves a real need in education.
American Heritage, the beloved, 68-year-old magazine of history, returns to regular publication on our Nation’s Birthday, July 4, 2017.
Edwin Grosvenor and the largely volunteer staff of American Heritage Magazine are pleased to announce the digital publication of a new issue on July 4, 2017, our Nation’s birthday, several years after the magazine was forced to suspend print publication during the recession.
More than 600 donors chipped in to help fund the re-launch of the magazine.
I recently picked up a 1961 issue of American Heritage and realized that the sign-up card bound into it for new subscribers had the same price ($15.00) that we were able to charge in 2012, more than a half century later.
A longtime contributor and former editor introduces the special anniversary issue.
READERS, I HAVE THE honor of introducing this birthday banquet of essays on critical moments in our nation's story by some of its ablest current thinkers. I even get to follow on the distinguished heels of President John F.
Reflections on the superb historian and American Heritage editor
For decades, Yale history professor David Blight, an award-winning author and a preeminent scholar of the Civil War, has studied the legacy of Bruce Catton, the historian/writer who significantly shaped our understanding of the Civil War by bringing it into exhilarating, memorable relief thro
In 1962, the president wrote for American Heritage that the study of history is no mere pastime, but the means by which a nation establishes its sense of identity and purpose.
AMERICAN HERITAGE PUBLISHING has just announced the launch of www.HeritageSites.us , a new website offering users information on thousands of historic sites across the United States.
Like the nation it covers, American Heritage was revolutionary at its birth. And, like that nation’s story, ours is a real cliffhanger.
It is rare for any magazine to live half a century.
On Lincoln’s birthday in 1976, The New York Times ran a Tiffany & Co.
On a shelf near our office-supply cabinet sit three little steel boxes that are, in effect, the magazine’s memory.
After a decade of writing about wars, elections, and other calamities, one of our best writers passes the baton.
After ten years of writing this column, I am saying a fond farewell.
Last May, American Heritage published a collection of assessments of who or what is under-and overvalued in fields that ranged from cars to presidents to movie stars.
I don’t believe I’m misquoting Jacques Barzun too violently in paraphrasing an austere dictum of his this way: “How do amateurs write? Badly, always.” Any editor will acknowledge the hard kernel of truth in this rule, but of course there are exceptions.
It has been a little under a decade since the editors here pestered a group of historians and journalists with these questions: “1.) In all of American history, whom do you consider the single most overrated public figure?
Is Robert E. Lee getting a free ride? Is it time someone spoke up for Richard Nixon? And does anyone have the lonely courage to say that most barbecue is greasy filth? There are exaggerated reputations in every field of American history, and overlooked ones, too. We asked the experts to choose which is which.
Last October, we proclaimed Saratoga Springs, New York the first winner of our annual Great American Place Award.
Now, 1998 is upon us, and it seems years closer to the millennium than did 1997. There’s no reason this should he the case—just as there’s no reason, strictly speaking, why the turn of the century should be celebrated in the year 2000. As Dr.
Every April, we give over the whole magazine to the theme of traveling with a sense of history; but otherwise, we tend to be leery of single-topic issues. After all, if the subscriber isn’t interested in the topic, all that our efforts have won us is some mild ill will.
I think the most frustrating anti-climax in any big movie can be found in the final segment of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones trilogy— Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade —when, after jousting with a Nazi column in the desert, H
From the very beginning, American Heritage has viewed history as inseparable from the place where it unfolded. Indeed, the first words in the first issue of the magazine were not about a famous person or a great event; they were about a place.
"BRECKINRIDGE, WHAT DO YOU THINK of the Dred Scott decision and the rights of the South in the Territories now?”
IN 1896, TWO ILLINOIS BOYS WHO HAD set up a factory in Springfield, Massachusetts, built and sold thirteen automobiles (two seats and a two-cylinder, six-horsepower engine with 138-cubic-inch displacement: $1500).
TWENTY YEARS AGO, I WAS WORKING in the American Heritage book division side by side with our (now) senior editor Jane Colihan, the two of us younger, of course, and darker-haired, and glummer.
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