A Sense of history : the best writing from the pages of American heritage /
introductory note by Byron Dobell.
- New York : American Heritage Press ; (c)1985. Boston : Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, (c)1985.
- ix, 832 pages ; 25 cm.
I wish I'd been there -- How to write history "And the mound builders vanished from the earth" / Robert Silverberg -- The hunt for the regicides "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 The garden of Eden and the deacon's meadow The battle of Lake Erie The peace of Christmas eve Primer from a green world Children of darkness Jackson's fight with the 'monster' / Bray Hammond -- Johnny Appleseed The minister and the mill girl The Hawthornes in paradise The Tammany pioneers The farther continent of James Clyman Prairie schooner A barbarian at the Shogun's court A family divided Hayfoot, strawfoot! / Bruce Catton -- The first modern man of war Dixon Wector -- Alexander Winston -- Clinton Rossiter -- Perry Miller -- Richard F. Snow -- Fred L. Engelman -- Walter Havighurst -- Stephen B. Oates -- Edward Hoagland -- George Howe -- Malcolm Cowley -- Richard Reinhardt -- Richard Rhodes -- George R. Stewart -- Emily Hahn -- Janet Stevenson -- B.H. Liddell Hart -- The unexpected Mrs. Stowe Fear of the city The great Vanderbilt will battle The historian as celebrity The machine that kept them honest Carnegie and Rockefeller Should the historian make moral judgments? / Henry Steele Commager -- Henry Adams in the South Seas "You'll have to see Morgan" / Andy Logan -- The father of Oz The winds of ruin The old Fall River Line "You press the button, we do the rest" / Bernard A. Weisberger -- The woods were tossing with jewels "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead" / Barbara W. Tuchman -- The American game Big Bill Taft An Iowa Christmas The world's tallest building Still quiet on the Western front Were Sacco and Vanzetti innocent? / Francis Russell -- Quiet earth, big sky The conundrum of corn Henry Ford's village Why the money stopped David McCullough -- Alfred Kazin -- Frank Kintrea -- John Lukacs -- Gerald Carson -- Robert L. Heilbroner -- Louis Auchincloss -- Daniel P. Mannix -- C.W. Gusewelle -- Oliver Jensen -- Marie St. John -- Bruce Catton -- Stephen Hess -- Paul Engle -- Spencer Klaw -- Gene Smith -- Wallace Stegner -- Joseph Kastner -- Walter Karp -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- "I am the law" / Thomas J. Fleming -- St. Lo The man who could speak Japanese When I landed, the war was over The place of Franklin D. Roosevelt in history How we found the missiles LBJ and Vietnam "The first rough draft of history" / an interview with Benjamin C. Bradlee by Michael Gartner. Charles Cawthon -- William Manchester -- Hughes Rudd -- Allan Nevins -- Don Moser -- Larry L. King --