American heritage
Subtitle: August/September 1978, vol. 29, no. 5.
Publisher: American Heritage Pub.
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: History; Witchcraft; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Prisoners and prisons; Elevators; Pictorial works; Personal narratives; Campaigns; Oral contraceptives; Seeds; Catalogs and collections; Military campaigns; Prisoners of war; Garden Club of America
Notes: "Sponsored by American Association for State & Local History [and] Society of American Historians."
Table of contents: title: A plundered province revisited: the colonial status, past and present, of the great American west / Richard Rhodes; title: Entertaining satan / John Demos; title: The obsequious bow: the story behind the Vietnam POW photograph that shocked America / Scott Blakey; title: National reflections / Oliver Jensen; title: "All safe, gentlemen, all safe": how the elevator forever altered the American skyline / Spencer Klaw; title: A heritage preserved: stolen treasures from the nation's archives / T.H. Watkins; title: Three flags at Mackinac / Walter Havighurst; title: The American pantheon, according to Coyle: a primitive artist's curious tribute to his idols, Wallis Simpson and the first thirty-one American presidents; title: Gunboat war at Vicksburg / Daniel F. Kemp, edited by John D. Milligan; title: Tuxedo park / Frank Kintrea; title: American characters: Laura Bridgman; title: The story of the pill: how an oral contraceptive was developed in less than a decade / Kenneth S. Davis; title: The way I see it: the civilization that wasn't / Bruce Catton; title: In furor hortensis: the Garden Club of America / Wendy Murphy; title: The victorian lady and her flowers: a bounteous pictorial portfolio; title: Crosswords in history: inventors and inventions / Eugene T. Maleska.