American Heritage

As the Southern Pacific passenger train slowly pulled into the dusty little desert town of Columbus, New Mexico, the passengers leaned out of the windows, eager to see as much as possible of the surrounding scene. Just a day earlier, Pancho Villa and...

A half-century ago Harry Dubin bought his son a camera, and together they made a remarkable series of photographs of a city full of blue-collar workers--all of them Dubin Will Rogers may never have met a man he didn't like, but Harry Dubin evidently...

"BRECKINRIDGE, WHAT DO YOU THINK of the Dred Scott decision and the rights of the South in the Territories now?" This earnest-sounding question would not on the face of it seem to betray what Douglas Southall Freeman described as the "rasping, mordant...

Five centuries of American hangovers--and the single greatest faux pas in New York City history Readers, our fearful trip through another presidential election is done. Whatever we may each feel about the results, it is time to relax, remind ourselves...

* On December 21 Eugene Talmadge, a virulent white supremacist who had just been elected governor of Georgia, died at the age of sixty-two. Since Talmadge had not yet been inaugurated, no one was sure what to do next. The reform-minded incumbent, Ellis...

ROBERT MOSES built small with the same imperial vigor as he built big, and at his behest the art of making scale-model cities reached its peak. The result still survives, and although few New Yorkers know about it, they can see their whole town--right...

Watches are like people. There's more behind the face than meets the eye." The History of Time Time has been told many ways: by sun, moon, temperature, stones, and even shadows. Billions of minutes have passed as these rather archaic methods have...