June 1976

Vain, snobbish, distinctly upper-class in his libertine social habits, Gouverneur Morris nevertheless saw himself justifiably as "A Representative of America"

A trip to the Ozarks in 1910 has left us a unique record of a people by-passed by progress

Mile for mile, it cost more in dollars—and lives—than any railroad ever built

The young poet became a legendary plebe in the few painful months he spent at West Point

The broad expanse of ocean that separated Plymouth from Mother England helped create a novel experiment in democracy that grew as the American colonies expanded.

Fifty European nations came to America on her hundredth birthday—and, for the first time, took her seriously

It became apparent that this influenza was a first-rate killer.