April/May 2003

Volume 54 , Issue 2
April/May 2003

Departments

History Now

History Now

In the News

What Trent Meant
Kevin Baker

Letter From the Editor

Enlarging America
Carla Davidson

My Brush With History

Did a Yiddish Curse Bring Down the Hindenburg?
Geraldine Vigoda

My Brush with History

Watching ‘the Outlaw’
Thomas A. Fitzgerald Jr.

Readers’ Album

Blood Evidence

The Business of America

Forgotten Fury
John Steele Gordon

Time Machine

1928 75 Years Ago
Frederic D. Schwarz

Features

Comparing Notes With Lewis And Clark

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

Leslie Allen
Reinventing A River

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.

Rosanne Haggerty
Empire Of The Winds

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

Scott Banks
Watching ‘the Outlaw’

Free Passes to a Movie Milestone

Thomas A. Fitzgerald Jr.
Where Berlin And America Meet

Our common history isn’t all pleasant, but seeing it firsthand is deeply moving

Fredric Smoler

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