Frederick E. Allen

Frederick E. Allen is the Leadership Editor of Forbes.com. He was a long-time editor of American Heritage, and the Editor of Invention & Technology from 1984 to 2007.

Articles by this Author

The 3 Faces of George Washington, November/December 2006 | Vol. 57, No. 6

How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First President

Where They Went To See The Future, March 2003 | Vol. 54, No. 1

The story of Chicago in the nineteenth century is the story of the making of America, Donald L. Miller says. A new PBS documentary based on a book he wrote shows why.

The Myth Of The Paperless Office, November/December 2002 | Vol. 53, No. 6

AND WHY YOURS IS MESSIER THAN EVER

The New Time Travel, April/May 2002 | Vol. 53, No. 2

HIGH TECHNOLOGY WELCOMES US INTO THE PAST

From Boom To Boom, February/March 2002 | Vol. 53, No. 1

TODAY’S OLYMPIC SKI CENTER IS YESTERDAY’S RUGGED AND RAGGED SILVER MINING CAPITAL

The New Warfare And Old Truths, November/December 2001 | Vol. 52, No. 8

How our technologies are still our allies

Hitler And IBM, July/August 2001 | Vol. 52, No. 5

DID A COMPANY AND A MACHINE SPAWN EVIL?

Present At The Creation, May 2001 | Vol. 52, No. 3

WILLIAM HEWLETT AND THE BIRTH OF SILICON VALLEY

The Voting Machine Problem, April 2001 | Vol. 52, No. 2

WHY THE TROUBLE IN FLORIDA WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN

The Myth Of Artificial Intelligence, February/March 2001 | Vol. 52, No. 1

COMPUTERS THAT COULD THINK WERE ONCE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. NOW THEY’RE FAR OFF.

Panama’s Canal, November 2000 | Vol. 51, No. 7

The high-tech wonder of 1914—now out of American hands—helps keep the high-tech world of 2000 moving

London Bridge Is Falling Down, October 2000 | Vol. 51, No. 6

And other high-tech debacles and how we learned to cope with them

When Sex Drives Technological Innovation, September 2000 | Vol. 51, No. 5

And why it has to

Since When Can You Patent A Gene?, July/August 2000 | Vol. 51, No. 4

And why is it not really so different from patenting anything else?

Back To The Future, May/June 2000 | Vol. 51, No. 3

Beyond the myth of ever-faster high-tech change and radical new breaks from the past

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The Baby Boom Today

American Heritage celebrates the baby-boom generation with the cover story of its October issue, “Boomer Century,” which will appear as the main feature on AmericanHeritage.com next Tuesday, October 25. The article’s subtitle asks, “What’s going to happen when the most prosperous, best-educated…

Black Man in Blackface

I just received the following correspondence from David Lander, a friend of and frequent contributor to American Heritage, and thought I'd share it: “Joshua Zeitz, in his piece on The Jazz Singer that went up on AmericanHeritage.com on October 6, refers to the assimilationist aspirations of the…

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