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American History Magazine
He was the Evel Knievel of his day, the man whose daring exploits drew massive crowds and fired imaginations across the country. Sam Patch lived a life of no particular distinction until his hobby of jumping from great heights into...
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American History Magazine
Movies about Indian captives have thrilled American audiences since 1903, but none has been as influential as The Searchers (1956), John Ford’s adaptation of Alan Le May’s novel. Le May set his story of an uncle’s search for his...
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American History Magazine
For many children captured by Indians on Texas frontier, the greatest challenge was returning home. To the Editors of the San Antonio Herald: On the first day of January, 1870, the son of the undersigned was stolen by the Indians at or...
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American History Magazine
Thousands of fans poured into Hoboken’s Elysian Fields in 1859 for one of the biggest sporting events of the times: a cricket match between American and British teams. But by the turn of the century, cricket was on the losing side of a...
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American History Magazine
Food Fight A spirited debate over the origins of the humble hamburger recently made national headlines. Texas state Rep. Betty Brown proposed a resolution naming Athens, Texas, the birthplace of the hamburger. But 89-year-old Ken Lassen...
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American History Magazine
The Last Full Measure Thank you for the picture of a former Confederate soldier and a former Union soldier shaking hands 50 years after they fought at Gettysburg (Table of Contents, February 2007). It moved me to tears. Is there any way...
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American History Magazine
World War I: American Legacy Inecom Entertainment, Widescreen, 112 minutes World War I had a profound impact on Americans on and off the battlefield. The well-educated sons of the nation’s elite were among the first to report to duty...
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American History Magazine
It was a confident 17-year-old art student named Vinnie Ream who boldly requested that the president of the United States pose for her while she honed her craft. Abraham Lincoln allowed the teenager 15 minutes per day to observe and sculpt...
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American History Magazine
An 1816 church election threw fuel on a fiery national debate about immigrants, patriotism and the English language. In March 1816, Pennsylvania’s attorney general charged 59 German-American men with conspiring to harass and assault a...
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American History Magazine
In 1905 Albert Einstein, a third-class clerk in the patent office in Zurich, Switzerland, published five groundbreaking papers that he had produced in his spare time. One would win him a Nobel Prize, and another produced the most famous...
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American History Magazine
One of the biggest stars of the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville’s iconic showcase of country music, was a 4-foot-11 black harmonica player named DeFord Bailey. Bailey grew up in a musical family in Smith County, Tenn., 40 miles east of...
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American History Magazine
Shout, Sister, Shout: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe By Gayle F. Wald, Beacon Press, 2007 It’s a truism about rock ’n’ roll—and about most other things: The more you know, the more you realize...
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American History Magazine
Durham White Stevens’ assassination in San Francisco in 1908 was an indirect result of U.S. imperial interests in the Far East. “Japan is doing in Korea and for the Koreans what the United States is doing in the Philippines,”...
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American History Magazine
Fatally poisoned by the glowing paint they used on the job, the ‘Radium Girls’ challenged workplace safety rules and helped shed light on the unseen dangers of radioactivity. When Grace Fryer landed a job at the United States Radium...
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American History Magazine
Now in its fifth season, PBS’ History Detectives is touted as the show where Antiques Roadshow meets CSI. Each week, four “detectives”—Wes Cowan, founder of Cowan’s Auctions, Inc.; Elyse Luray, independent appraiser and historian...
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American History Magazine
The blonde was tall and wore stiletto heals that could pin your chest to the sidewalk; you’d die, wriggling but smiling up at that smooth, cold face. She wore a black mesh of mourning cloth that hid blue eyes— one that wept over a dead...
