April/May 1979

How the Philadelphia waterworks became a potent symbol of our lost belief that nature and technology could live together in harmony

He was the first Englishman to give a detailed description of the North American wilderness. Was it a pack of lies?

Maligned and misunderstood throughout much of their history, the Penitentes of the American Southwest have nevertheless given their people a sense of community and spiritual security. But for how much longer?

Wilson's letters to Mary were frequent and intimate, but it would have been political suicide to marry a divorcee by the post-Victorian standards of the time

During three harrowing years as a prisoner of the Japanese, an American woman secretly kept an extraordinary journal of suffering, hope, ingenuity, and human endurance

A ponderous memorial to a people who refused to vanish

Had Franklin D. Roosevelt not been so conservative, we might have had national health insurance forty years ago