November/December 2002

WHY SINATRA IS OUR GREATEST SINGER, PERIOD

The little-appreciated U.S. public-land survey not only opened up our frontier but made possible our freedoms

The least-understood branch of our military was born 60 years ago but today is coming into prominence as never before

A streetcar fan’s photo album is a window opening on the vanished workaday beauty of Downtown

The campaign to revise Hitler’s reputation has gone on for 50 years, but there’s another strategy now. Some of it is built on the work of the head of the Gestapo—who may have enjoyed a comfortable retirement in America.

And how history shows it’s actually good for us