Sleep is not something I take for granted anymore. Early one recent morning, I succumbed to the band of the unslept and watched Tom Hanks playing Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
The scene in the movie on the New York subway, where Mr. Rogers is recognized in the car by school kids – largely African-American and Latino – who start singing his theme song, and leads to the entirety of the train becoming a moving chorus, moved me to tears.
Editor's Note: David O. Stewart is the author of the recently-released George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father, which has been awarded the History Prize of the Society of the Cincinnati. He has written numerous books of history and articles in American Heritage and other publications.
Editor's Note: James P. Duffy, the author of over a dozen books mostly on military history, wrote “No One Returns Alive“ in our Fall 2017 issue about the critical but often-overlooked New Guinea campaign. Jim adapted the following essay from his most recent book, Return to Victory, about MacArthur’s campaign to retake the Philippines.
Sleep is not something I take for granted anymore. Early one recent morning, I succumbed to the band of the unslept and watched Tom Hanks playing Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Sleep is not something I take for granted anymore. Early one recent morning, I succumbed to the band of the unslept and watched Tom Hanks playing Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Editor's Note: Don't miss the first half of this essay, Two Hours in Hell at Pearl Harbor. Author Ed Offley, after serving in the Navy during Vietnam, reported on Naval issues for three decades for The Ledger-Star in Norfolk and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He was also Editor-in-Chief of DefenseWatch Magazine. Mr.
Editor’s Note: William Morrow has just published Judy Batalion’s extraordinary new book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, which has been on the New York Times and other bestseller lists. We are delighted that Dr. Batalion agreed to adapt portions of the book into an essay about Vladka Meed, one of the dozen female resistance fighters profiled in the book, who survived the struggle against the Nazis to emigrate to the U.S. in 1946. Publishers Weekly praised the book, saying it “pays vivid tribute to ‘the breadth and scope of female courage.’”
Editor's Note: Candacy Taylor is an award-winning author, photographer, and cultural documentarian. The following is an excerpt from her most recent book, titled the Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America, published by Abrams Books.
Editor's Note: Gary Kinder is author of the New York Times bestseller Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World’s Richest Shipwreck. He wrote the introduction for a book recently published by the Naval Institute Press, The Herndon Climb: A History of the United States Naval Academy's Greatest Tradition by Rear Adm. James McNeal, SC, USN (Ret.) and Scott Tomasheski, from which this essay was adapted.