While New York families were spending fortunes inherited from fathers and grandfathers, the Chicago rich had to start from scratch, both making and lavishly spending money within one generation
If the historians themselves are no longer interested in defining the structure of the American past, how can the citizenry understand its heritage? The author examines the disrepair in which the professors have left their subject.
A disease that no one understood laid waste a major American city. Five thousand died in two months, and Memphis was never the same again.
An Interview With Theodore H. White
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID McCULLOUGH
AN INTERVIEW WITH C. VANN WOODWARD
Why the most fascinating of subjects is made to seem the most boring—and what can be done about it
The Man, the Myth, and the Midnight Ride
What happened at 6:40 p.m., November 18, 1903?
“ To spend and be spent for the Good of Mankind is what I chiefly aim at ”
The Federal Writers’ Project 1935-1943
A TALE OF RECONSTRUCTION Of the turbulent career of Pinckney B. S. Pinchback, adventurer, operator, and first black governor of Louisiana. He reminds one powerfully, says the author, of the late Adam Clay ton Powell, Jr.
Three Centuries of Divorce, American Style
The Melting Pot: Its most difficult test
The commander of the NC-4 called the trip “uneventful,” but the men in the other planes of the mission could not quite agree
To the hard-bitten laborers of the I.W.W., the union was a home, a church, and a holy crusade.
The American system of choosing a President has not worked out badly, far as it may be from the Founding Fathers’ vision of a natural aristocracy
Proud and independent, the farm girls of New England helped build an industrial Eden, but its paternalistic innocence was not to last
Shocking, exuberant, exalted, the camp meeting answered the pioneers' demand for religion and helped shape the character of the West.
Maybe the American suceess myth began with this carpenter’s helper who rose to riches a title, and a governorship
