1996

AFTER TRYING TO PRODUCE DRINKABLE WINE for three hundred years, we finally got the hang of it—so effectively that in the last quarter-century our results have raised the quality of winemaking all over the world

A SERIES of remarkable dioramas show a hard-working, well-worn city at street level

AMERICANS have been scaling down their cities for a century and a half

ROBERT MOSES built small with the same imperial vigor as he built big, and at his behest the art of making scale-model cities reached its peak. The result still survives, and although few New Yorkers know about it, they can see their whole town—right down to their own houses or apartment buildings—perfectly reproduced.

COMING TO TERMS WITH THE MOST COMPELLING AND MYSTERIOUS OF CIVIL WAR HEROES

A VETERAN JOURNALIST reflects on how public discourse has been tarnished by the press’s relentless war against Presidents—including his own biggest offense

Five centuries of American hangovers—and the single greatest faux pas in New York City history

At the age of eleven Roger Tory Peterson had an experience that produced a major hobby and a new industry

In New Bern, North Carolina, enjoy the holidays in 1770—and 1830, and 1940

Purple Haze