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March 1989

12 years ago By admin

Volume

40

Issue

2

Peter Baida’s review of my grandfather’s book (“The Business of America,” September/October 1988) is really a very nice article, thoughtfully written. I look forward to sharing it with other members of the family.

Stories published from "March 1989"

The First 1040

Authored by: Nancy Shepherdson

Seventy-five years ago Americans paid their first income tax. And liked it.

Jolson

Authored by: The Editors

The Legend Comes to Life

The Civil War Dictionary

Authored by: The Editors

Revised Edition

City

Authored by: The Editors

Rediscovering Its Center

The Secret Of The Soldiers Who Didn’t Shoot

Authored by: Fredric Smoler

Slam Marshall, who is regarded as one of our great military historians, looked into the heart of combat and discovered a mystery there that raised doubts about the fighting quality of U.S. troops. But one GI thought he was a liar…

The South’s Inner Civil War

Authored by: Eric Foner

The more fiercely the Confederacy fought for its independence, the more bitterly divided it became. To fully understand the vast changes the war unleashed on the country, you must first understand the plight of the Southerners who didn’t want secession.

When Hollywood Makes History

Authored by: The Editors

No less a fan than President Wilson said “The Birth of a Nation” was “like writing history with Lightning.” Movies have taught everybody else history too.

America’s True Power

Authored by: John Lukacs

At a time when many are concerned by the nation’s loss of the unassailable economic position it occupied just after World War II, one historian argues that our real strength—and our real peril—lie elsewhere

The Shocking Blue Hair Of Elie Nadelman

Authored by: Cynthia Nadelman

He ignored the conventions of his day and became one of the greatest American sculptors of this century

The New Deal And The Guru

Authored by: J. Samuel Walker

How Franklin Roosevelt’s Secretary of Agriculture sent an eccentric Russian mystic on a sensitive mission to Asia and thereby created diplomatic havoc, personal humiliation, and embarrassment for the administration

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