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1954

Stories Published in this Year

Great River | December 1954 (Volume: 6, Issue: 1)

Paul Horgan tells a lyric story of the Rio Grande Valley, where Spanish and Indian cultures met in a conflict of arms and ideas

The Writing Of History | December 1954 (Volume: 6, Issue: 1)

An English Authority Compares British and American Viewpoints

AMERICAN HERITAGE is privileged to present the first publication of material from

The Old Fall River Line | December 1954 (Volume: 6, Issue: 1)

Everyone from presidents to swindlers sailed the Sound on “Mammoth Palace Steamers” in the heyday of the sidewheelers

Only a lucky rainfall put an end to our humiliation

Henry Ford | December 1954 (Volume: 6, Issue: 1)

—a complex man

What with all this democracy things will never be the same

What They Did There | December 1954 (Volume: 6, Issue: 1)

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us.

Painters Of The Plains | December 1954 (Volume: 6, Issue: 1)

The Middle West has put its stamp on many artists’ work

Investigation: 1862 | December 1954 (Volume: 6, Issue: 1)

Suspected but not convicted, this General went to prison

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