American heritage
Subtitle: December 1977, vol. 29, no. 1.
Publisher: American Heritage Pub.
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Pictorial works; Ecology; Conservation of natural resources; Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, Calif; History; Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862; Campaigns; Spanish-American War, 1898; Personal narratives; Anecdotes; Military campaigns; Chattanooga Railroad Expedition (1862) fast (OCoLC)fst00852588
Notes: "Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
Table of contents: title: Full speed ahead and damn the tomorrows: our frontier heritage of waste / Ray Allen Billington; title: Who was this man: and why did he paint such terrible things about us?: the marxist muralist Diego Rivera and his American capitalist patrons / Roy Bongartz; title: Mighty, like a rose: the Rose Bowl Parade, a national institution that began with buggies and buckboards; title: The great locomotive chase: "the most extraordinary and astounding adventure of the Civil War" / Stephen W. Sears; title: A 1783 monument to a American independence makes sense: but in Yorkshire, England?: Sir Thomas Gascoigne and his curious creation / Maurice Beresford; title: From Austerlitz to Moscow: American statecraft and nuclear war / Charles Mack; title: "I'm a born optimist": the era of Hubert H. Humphrey / Hays Gorey; title: The way I see it: the glories of automatic heating / Bruce Catton; title: "The American world was not made for me": the unknown Alexander Hamilton / James Thomas Flexner; title: Under fire in Cuba: a volunteer's eyewitness account of the War with Spain; title: American characters: the hard-rock miner of the early west / T.H. Watkins; title: Readers' album: let's make a deal; title: Crosswords in history: able seamen / Eugene T. Maleska; title: "A continuity of place and blood": the seasons of man in the Ozarks / Charles Gusewelle.