The Time Machine

Time Machine

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Frederic D. O'Brien

October 2000

12 years ago By admin

Volume

51

Issue

6

A Shifting Tide in Korea The Court-martial of Billy Mitchell Author, Doctor, Soldier, Spy

Stories published from "October 2000"

Past Futures

Authored by: The Editors

THE HALF-FAMILIAR, WHOLLY ENTRANCING WORLD WE NEVER MADE, AS ENVISIONED BY AMERICAN DESIGNERSS AND ILLUSTRATORS

The Big Road

Authored by: Stephen E. Ambrose

Building the transcontinental railroad was the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century. Was it also the biggest swindle?

A Historian In Cyberspace

Authored by: Edward L. Ayers

A place, it turns out, best understood by Alexis de Tocqueville

Tucson

Authored by: Lawrence W. Cheek

A city where the desert is everywhere, where sprawl into magnificent desolation is the main industry, whose oldest building is still its most beautiful, whose surrounding mountains are its soul: Lawrence W. Cheek explains why American Heritage’s Great American Place Award for the year 2000 goes to…

A Biography Of America

Authored by: Christine Herbes-sommers

IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL OUR NATIONAL STORY ON TELEVISION, EVEN IF YOU’VE GOT 13 HOURS AT YOUR DISPOSAL. THREE PEOPLE WHO DID IT EXPLAIN HOW—AND WHY.

What’s On Tv

Authored by: The Editors

The show is made up of 26 half-hour programs; here is a guide to them.

1950 Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

A Shifting Tide in Korea

1925 Seventy-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

The Court-martial of Billy Mitchell

1775 Two Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Author, Doctor, Soldier, Spy