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Normandy at Peace, April 1997 | Vol. 48, No. 2

A moving calm fills places that had been shattered by war.

Iron Man Meets Mr. Clean, September 1996 | Vol. 47, No. 5

What Rust Belt? Pittsburgh shows how a city can lose its industry but retain its soul.

The Best of the Big Sky, July/August 1996 | Vol. 47, No. 4

Montana’s Flathead Valley has captivated tourists for more than a century.

Oldie But Goodie, May/June 1996 | Vol. 47, No. 3

Cruising the Maine coast on a schooner built when Ulysses Grant was president

The Old Neighborhood, December 1995 | Vol. 46, No. 8

Every December, a 350-year-old New Hampshire port re-creates centuries of changing holiday traditions.

Shaker Retreat, July/August 1995 | Vol. 46, No. 4

A museum village near Harrodsburg, Kentucky lets visitors experience Shaker style by spending the night.

Picture Perfect, May/June 1995 | Vol. 46, No. 3

Woodstock, Vermont owes its appeal as much to the legacy of its residents as to its natural setting.

Going Back on the Water, April 1995 | Vol. 46, No. 2

An idyllic river ride past the overgrown ruins of a vanished 20th-century civilization

Mystery Cruise, February/March 1995 | Vol. 46, No. 1

On a journey to Mexico’s land of the Maya, even the experts can fill in the past only .

Little Fort on the Prairie, November 1994 | Vol. 45, No. 7

It was meant to be an outpost for years, but the frontier sped past it in months.

To Plan A Trip, November 1994 | Vol. 45, No. 7

Fair Harbor, October 1994 | Vol. 45, No. 6

For two centuries. St. Michaels, Maryland has earned its livelihood from the handsome vessels it sent forth to hunt, fish, and fight on the Chesapeake Bay.

Boomer Town, September 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 5

Oklahoma’s “rightful capital” retains the tenacious spirit of its founders.

Queen of the River, July/August 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 4

Christmas Without Snow, December 1992 | Vol. 43, No. 8

To Plan A Trip, December 1992 | Vol. 43, No. 8

Salem At Peace, October 1992 | Vol. 43, No. 6

Victorian Secret, July/august 1990 | Vol. 41, No. 5

Las Vegas : An Oasis, May/June 1990 | Vol. 41, No. 4

Gerald Carson, March 1990 | Vol. 41, No. 2

A Brush With History, November 1989 | Vol. 40, No. 7

Bluegrass, April 1989 | Vol. 40, No. 3

To Plan A Trip, April 1989 | Vol. 40, No. 3

Savannah’s Amazing Grace, February 1989 | Vol. 40, No. 1

To Plan A Trip, February 1989 | Vol. 40, No. 1

A View From The Train, September/October 1988 | Vol. 39, No. 6

Tracing Natchez, July/August 1988 | Vol. 39, No. 5

Cruising Canadian Waters, May/June 1988 | Vol. 39, No. 4

To Plan A Trip, May/June 1988 | Vol. 39, No. 4

Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Written By Herself, December 1987 | Vol. 38, No. 8

Featured Authors

Acheson, Dean

Dean Acheson (1893-1971) was an attorney and statesman who served as Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry Truman. A key architect of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, Acheson stressed the importance of multilateral organizations in the fight against totalitarianism. Prior to his service in the Truman Administration, Acheson clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, worked at Washington law firm Covington & Burling, and served as Undersecretary of the Treasury for one year under President Franklin Roosevelt.

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) was a historian and professor who wrote on military history, presidential history, and American expansion and foreign policy. Ambrose has been praised for his biographies of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, and for helping to galvanize interest in World War II.

Becker, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books. Her history When The War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge won accolades from the Robert F. Kennedy book award, while her recent biography of female conflict journalists You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War won the 2022 Sperber Book Prize and Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize. She is also the author of America’s Vietnam War: A Narrative History for young adults.

Bird, Kai

Kai Bird is a historian and Executive Director of Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York. He is best known for writing about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vietnam War, US-Middle East relations and biographies of political figures. Bird is the author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, a New York Times bestseller. His most recent book is The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Blight, David W.

David W. Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University. Recently, Blight has written A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation, and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, which won the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize.