1999

February/March 1999

Stories Published in this Year

1799 Two Hundred Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

The Death of Washington

1949 Fifty Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

The Red Scare

1899 One Hundred Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

When Does a Century Start?

How on Earth to Pick the Image of the Century? | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

It’s one in a billion.

Did MacArthur Ignore a Crucial Signal from the Chinese? | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

Why were 20 wounded American soldiers released on Thanksgiving in 1950, days before the Chinese attacked in Korea?

Hirohito Stops at a Red Light and Peers at Me | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

When the Japanese government vehicle came to a stop, I saw an elderly and frail-looking man in the back seat. It was Emperor Hirohito.

1774 Two Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago | December 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 8)

Rebellion in New Hampshire

“Our Big Time” | November 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 7)

THE FILMMAKER, who has just finished a documentary on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, believes what the two women achieved was nothing less than the largest social transformation in American history

The Supreme Laboratory of the American Experiment | November 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 7)

One of America’s greatest documentary filmmakers takes on America’s greatest city: Ric Burns discusses his new PBS series, New York.

People Of Prgress | November 1999 (Volume: 50, Issue: 7)

The artist EDWARD SOREL updates for our century a classic view of Americans who changed the world

1999

Stories Published in this Year

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