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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. 

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How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First President
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.
AND WHY YOURS IS MESSIER THAN EVER
HIGH TECHNOLOGY WELCOMES US INTO THE PAST
TODAY’S OLYMPIC SKI CENTER IS YESTERDAY’S RUGGED AND RAGGED SILVER MINING CAPITAL
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
WHY THE TROUBLE IN FLORIDA WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN
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
And other high-tech debacles and how we learned to cope with them
And why it has to
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

"WEB ONLY STORIES" BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

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…
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…