September 1992

For 150 years a crenelated Gothic Revival castle in Connecticut has housed an art collection that was astonishing for its time—and ours

The author joins the thousands who feel compelled to trace the flight of Lincoln’s assassin

The great Czech composer arrived on these shores a century ago and wrote some of his most enduring masterpieces here. Perhaps more important, he understood better than any American of the day where our musical destiny lay.

The two-party system, undreamt of by the founders of the Republic, has been one of its basic shaping forces ever since their time