April/May 2003
Volume 54 , Issue 2

Departments
History Now
In the News
Letter From the Editor
My Brush With History
My Brush with History
Readers’ Album
The Business of America
Time Machine
Features
A present-day adventurer canoes the Upper Missouri to find that time and fortune have erased signs of its later history, restoring the wilderness the Corps of Discovery penetrated nearly 200 years ago
Its waters drove our first Industrial Revolution—and were poisoned by it. Thoreau believed the Merrimack might not run pure again for thousands of years, but today it is a welcoming pathway through a hundred-mile-long red-brick museum of America’s rise to power.
In the Aleutian Islands you can explore a landscape of violent beauty, discover the traces of an all-but-forgotten war, and (just possibly) catch a $100,000 fish
Our common history isn’t all pleasant, but seeing it firsthand is deeply moving
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