December 2000

Volume 51 , Issue 8
December 2000

Departments

History Happened Here

A Berkshire Christmas

History Now

History Now

In the News

Clinton’s Legacy
Kevin Baker

Letter From the Editor

Why History Now?
Richard F. Snow

My Brush With History

My Brush With History

The Business of America

Hearst Gets His Due
John Steele Gordon

Time Machine

1901 100 Years Ago
Frederic D. Schwarz

Features

Where’s Sacagawea?

NOT IN YOUR POCKET, PROBABLY

The Adventure Craze

MORE AND MORE AMERICANS ARE PAYING A LOT OF MONEY TO PUT THEMSELVES IN MORTAL DANGER. WHY? AND WHY NOW?

Anthony Brandt
The Kid

JACKIE COOGAN REACHED THE PINNACLE OF SUCCESS AND STARDOM WHEN HE WAS FIVE. THEN HE SET THE HOLLYWOOD PATTERN OF PAYING THE PRICE FOR EARLY FAME.

Neil A. Grauer
Jazz And America

Geoffrey C. Ward, writer of a major new book and 19-hour
documentary (directed by Ken Burns) on the subject, discusses the joys and wonders of our native art form

Gary Giddins
Half A Million Purple Hearts

Why a 200-year-old decoration offers evidence in the controversy surrounding the Hiroshima bombing.

Kathryn Moore, D. M. Giangreco
Merry Chanukah

THE HOLIDAY’S TRIUMPHANT RISE FROM AN OVERLOOKED AFTERTHOUGHT IS ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST SUCCESS STORIES.

Frederic Schwarz
The Forgotten Plague

A murderous disease was ravaging the south in 1914. Then one brave and determined doctor discovered the cure — and nobody believed him.

Daniel Akst

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