Essays

Title Author Issue
Football As A Metaphor For War
 Weeks, James September/October 1988
Private Trolley
 September/October 1988
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Inventing Modern Football
 Watterson, John September/October 1988
Parade
 September/October 1988
Feud
 September/October 1988
Flights Of Passage
 September/October 1988
Editors’ Bookshelf
 September/October 1988
To Find Out More
 September/October 1988
The Stumbling Block
 Petro, Pamela September/October 1988
The Tiffany Screen
 Bernier, Olivier September/October 1988
Coming Up In American Heritage
 September/October 1988
Revolution At The Table
 September/October 1988
The Pilot And The Passenger
 September/October 1988
Mills And Factories Of New England
 September/October 1988
Border Fury
 September/October 1988
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
The Boston Strong Boy
 Ward, Geoffrey September/October 1988
Flank March
 September/October 1988
To Plan A Trip
 September/October 1988
A View From The Train
 Editors, The September/October 1988
Good Old Fast Food
 September/October 1988
No Conflict
 September/October 1988
The ’58 Cadillac
 September/October 1988
Margaret Coit Elwell
 July/August 1988
Kathleen Brady
 July/August 1988
Nathaniel Burt
 July/August 1988
Put The Blame On Kennedy
 July/August 1988
Why Presidents Always Disappoint
 July/August 1988
Henry Steele Commager
 July/August 1988
Robert Crunden
 July/August 1988
Marcus Cunliffe
 July/August 1988
Richard N. Current
 July/August 1988
Overrated & Underrated Americans
 July/August 1988
Overrated & Underrated Americans
 July/August 1988
John R. Alden
 July/August 1988
Peter Andrews
 July/August 1988
Jacques Barzun
 July/August 1988
The Bubble Reputation
 Dobell, Byron July/August 1988
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
What Happened in Hinton
 Lilly, Paul July/August 1988
Joan Hoff-wllson
 July/August 1988
Max Frankel
 July/August 1988
Robert W. Johannsen
 July/August 1988
Linda K. Kerber
 July/August 1988
Reagan: A Short-term Perspective
 July/August 1988
Joan Paterson Kerr
 July/August 1988
Uncle Sam Versus John Q. Public
 July/August 1988
Robert H. Ferrell
 July/August 1988
William Kidd: Good Guy, Bad Guy
 July/August 1988
Thomas Fleming
 July/August 1988
Arthur A. Ekirch
 July/August 1988
J. C. Furnas
 July/August 1988