A Sense of history : the best writing from the pages of American heritage / introductory note by Byron Dobell.

I wish I'd been there -- How to write history Dixon Wector -- "And the mound builders vanished from the earth" / Robert Silverberg -- The hunt for the regicides Alexander Winston -- "Then and there the child independence was born" / Richard B. Morris -- "In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" / Kenneth S. Davis -- Our two greatest presidents Clinton Rossiter -- The garden of Eden and the deacon's meadow Perry Miller -- The battle of Lake Erie Richard F. Snow -- The peace of Christmas eve Fred L. Engelman -- Primer from a green world Walter Havighurst -- Children of darkness Stephen B. Oates -- Jackson's fight with the 'monster' / Bray Hammond -- Johnny Appleseed Edward Hoagland -- The minister and the mill girl George Howe -- The Hawthornes in paradise Malcolm Cowley -- The Tammany pioneers Richard Reinhardt -- The farther continent of James Clyman Richard Rhodes -- Prairie schooner George R. Stewart -- A barbarian at the Shogun's court Emily Hahn -- A family divided Janet Stevenson -- Hayfoot, strawfoot! / Bruce Catton -- The first modern man of war B.H. Liddell Hart --

The unexpected Mrs. Stowe David McCullough -- Fear of the city Alfred Kazin -- The great Vanderbilt will battle Frank Kintrea -- The historian as celebrity John Lukacs -- The machine that kept them honest Gerald Carson -- Carnegie and Rockefeller Robert L. Heilbroner -- Should the historian make moral judgments? / Henry Steele Commager -- Henry Adams in the South Seas Louis Auchincloss -- "You'll have to see Morgan" / Andy Logan -- The father of Oz Daniel P. Mannix -- The winds of ruin C.W. Gusewelle -- The old Fall River Line Oliver Jensen -- "You press the button, we do the rest" / Bernard A. Weisberger -- The woods were tossing with jewels Marie St. John -- "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead" / Barbara W. Tuchman -- The American game Bruce Catton -- Big Bill Taft Stephen Hess -- An Iowa Christmas Paul Engle -- The world's tallest building Spencer Klaw -- Still quiet on the Western front Gene Smith -- Were Sacco and Vanzetti innocent? / Francis Russell -- Quiet earth, big sky Wallace Stegner -- The conundrum of corn Joseph Kastner -- Henry Ford's village Walter Karp -- Why the money stopped John Kenneth Galbraith --

"I am the law" / Thomas J. Fleming -- St. Lo Charles Cawthon -- The man who could speak Japanese William Manchester -- When I landed, the war was over Hughes Rudd -- The place of Franklin D. Roosevelt in history Allan Nevins -- How we found the missiles Don Moser -- LBJ and Vietnam Larry L. King -- "The first rough draft of history" / an interview with Benjamin C. Bradlee by Michael Gartner.

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