We celebrate one of America's greatest historians with an anthology of his writing.
Some of the most important essays on gun rights, gun culture, and the meaning of the Second Amendment have appeared in American Heritage over the last 50 years.
American Heritage has published many important essays on the history of the Vietnam War.
Rarely has the full story been told about how a famed botanist, a pioneering female journalist, and First Lady Helen Taft battled reluctant bureaucrats to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington.
Interestingly, most of the 2021 books voted best by readers of American Heritage are about the Colonial and Founding eras.
He became the dean of American historians after learning his craft working five years on the staff of American Heritage.
Each year, the Men’s Titanic Society gathers to honor the men who gave their lives to save women and children.
Allied soldiers struggled for months to clear veteran German troops dug into the mountains of northern Italy in late 1944 and early 1945.
Welsh designer Patrick Mulder created a haunting image of Vladimir Putin with Hitler's moustache.
Vladimir Putin used historical references and a claim of fighting “fascism” to justify war on Ukraine, despite his own glaring Hitlerian behavior.
It was a challenging couple of months after the flood, but our offices will soon be operational again.
Hurricane Ida flooded our offices and caused enormous damage.
Jan Scruggs had the idea to create a memorial to honor 12 friends he lost in Vietnam, and the other 58,320 men and women who gave their lives. A petition has been started to ask Pres. Biden to award the Presidential Medal to Scruggs.
Here is probably the most wide-ranging look at Presidential misbehavior ever published in a magazine.
Facebook and Google have repeatedly blocked American Heritage's content because they can't tell the difference between Russian trolls and a trusted, award-winning magazine.
We asked ten historians in this issue to give us their assessments of Donald Trump's accomplishments, both good and bad.
You can now listen to a radio play of the classic story of George Bailey co-sponsored by American Heritage.
Masks and "social distancing" are nothing new. Over the centuries, Americans have suffered terribly from smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, pellagra, influenza, polio, and other pandemics.
In five appointments to the Supreme Court, Eisenhower added conservatives, moderates, and a liberal, believing the President and courts should represent all the American people.
Some New England graveyards show evidence of rituals performed to ward off bloodthirsty murderers.
Research by American Heritage found that the Royal Navy lost 24 warships sunk or heavily damaged in October 1780, which must have affected Britain's ability to fight in the months before the surrender at Yorktown.
Daisy Bonner, who cooked for Franklin Roosevelt for twenty years in the Georgia White House, recalled his favorite dish.
Both our Constitution and our historic monuments were trashed during recent protests.
During the Black Panther trials in New Haven 50 years ago this summer, a remarkable group of leaders helped calm a boisterous crowd of protesters.
The year 1970 was a watershed, so we asked several thoughtful writers to reflect on key events.
The Army has named ten military bases in honor of men who killed 365,000 U.S. soldiers. Should they be renamed? Or left as they are, since the bases are part of a “Great American Heritage," as President Trump says?
Our research reveals that 19 artworks in the U.S. Capitol honor men who were Confederate officers or officials. What many of them said, and did, is truly despicable.
The prolific author wrote several bestsellers about Presidential power.
In looking at the restoration of the Front Parlor, we can learn a lot about the Washington family, life in Colonial America, and the art of historic preservation.
