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Correspondence, Antismoking movement, Anecdotes, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Daguerreotype, Cost and standard of living, Cigarettes, Advertising, Cowboys, Discovery and exploration, Dogs, Pictorial works, HistoryPeople
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), M. L. Weems (1759-1825), H. W. Halleck (1815-1872), Francis Guy (1760-1820), Owen Wister (18860-1938), Ernie Pyle (1900-1945)Places
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Table of Contents
"By chaos out of dream": an exploration into the exploration of America / Wallace Stegner
The cost of living in America, 1800-1980: a graphic treatment / John A. Garraty
Town & country: the smaller, greener Baltimore of Francis Guy / Stiles Tuttle Colwill
The mystery of the Mary Celeste: a classic riddle of the sea from an absorbing new book / Ormonde de Kay
Ernie Pyle: chronicler of "The men who do the dying" / Paul Lancaster
American characters: Henry Wager Halleck / Richard F. Snow
"The woods were tossing with jewels": a childhood in the Florida wilderness / Marie St. John
A heritage preserved: Miami deco / T.H. Watkins
From Camelot to Abilene: Owen Wister creates the cowboy myth / John Lukacs
Canines to Canaan: the story of some forgotten four-footed pioneers / Clark C. Spence
Mason Weems, bibliopolist: what the fable of George Washington and the cherry tree means / Garry Wills
Lincoln's lost love letters: a cache of letters, discovered in 1928 and published in the Atlantic Monthly, proved that Abraham Lincoln really loved Ann Rutledge. Or did they? / Don E. Fehrenbacher.
A bulwark against mighty woes: the hundredth anniversary of the American Red Cross
"A very good specimen of the daguerreotype": the story behind the recently rediscovered picture that proved to the world that the human face could be photographed / Marian S. Carson
Thank you for not smoking: the hundred-year war against the cigarettee / Gordon L. Dillow
Readers' album: the Chinese connection.
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"Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
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Feedback?February 14, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
October 8, 2017 | Edited by MARC Bot | merge duplicate works of 'American heritage' |
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