American Heritage

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN HIS MARVELOUS MEMOIR, Flights of Passage, my friend and onetime colleague Samuel Hynes, a Marine Corps combat aviator in World War II, writes that the war is the shared secret of his generation--those young men who came...

Family photographs have long played an important role in accessing the past--and now an innovative web-based multi-media project has started archiving thousands of African-American family photos in an attempt to explore lives and history through this...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AT THE HEIGHT OF OPERATION Desert Storm in February 1991, former All-American football star Ron Kramer was watching the news on television. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, chief of U.S. ground forces in the Persian Gulf, was detailing...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TIMES CHANGE. HISTORY CHANGES. Take Monticello: Thomas Jefferson s storied home and temple to the Republic's founding has just this year gained a spectacular 42,000-square-foot visitor complex that replaces the small off-site...

ON JUNE 3, 1898, 39 days into the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders arrived in Florida by train, assigned to the U.S. transport Yucatan. But the departure date from Tampa Bay for Cuba kept changing. Just a month earlier,...