Issue
Featured Articles
A Slave’s Audacious Bid For Freedom
Author: David W. Blight
The Nez Perce Flight For Justice
Author: R. David Edmunds
Lost At Sea For 24 Days
Author: Thomas Fleming
Steely determination enabled Eddie Rickenbacker, the World I ace pilot and president of Eastern Airlines, to survive drifting across the Pacific in a life raft.
Survivors America
Author: The Editors
Taken by Indians
Author: Kevin Sweeney
Mary Rowlandson, captured by Indians in 1676 and marched into the “vast and howling Wilderness”, survived to write the first and perhaps most powerful example of the captivity narrative
March On Quebec
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
The Awful March Of The Saints
Author: David Roberts
Disaster at a Distant Moon
Author: Tom Jones
Three days into their mission, two vital oxygen tanks exploded, seriously damaging Apollo 13's service module and forcing pilot Fred Haise, Jr. and his two fellow astronauts to scramble into the attached lunar module where they plotted their course home, shivering in the cold on limited oxygen
First Images Of The New World
Author: Kim Sloan
“Lost Colony” Governor John White’s Early Paintings Colored European Views for Centuries