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American Heritage - February/March 1978
Great Railroad War of 1877, Mississippi Bubble, Cowboy & Critter, NRA & 2nd Amendment
COVER: N. C. Wyeth's The Pay Stage (1909) evokes a past when every American's right to own (and use) any size, shape, and kind of gun he wished was incontestable. Times have changed, but not the convictions of the venerable National Rifle Association-as John G. Mitchell relates in the article beginning on page 4 - GOD, GUNS, AND GUTS MADE AMERICA FREE The National Rifle Association and the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms by John G. Mitchell - THE AMERICAN FARM: Still Family, Still the Wonder of the World by Richard Rhodes - THE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE: John Law's Disastrous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme - THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO: The Jewish Family That Rescued Jefferson's Home by Mary Cable and Annabelle Prager - A HERITAGE PRESERVED by T. H. Watkins - SHE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT, EVEN IF SHE DID Why Lizzie Borden Went Free by Kathryn Allamong Jacob - THE WAY I SEE Itby Bruce Catton - THE GREAT RAILROAD WAR OF 1877 America's First National Labor Uprising by Paul Dickson - AMERICAN CHARACTERS Sockless Jerry Simpson by Richard F. Snow - CHAMPION AMONG THE HEATHEN: An American Missionary in South Africa 140 Years Ago by Paul Lancaster - "HERE AM I: SEND ME, SEND ME!" The Missionary Movement, Then and Now by Martin E. Marty - VINTAGE YEARS: The President of a Thousand Faces by Oliver Jensen - PURSUIT: NORMANDY, 1944: An Infantryman Remembers How It Was by Charles Cawthon - THE COWBOY AND THE CRITTER by Owen Ulph - HEADIN' FOR THE (ALMOST) LAST ROUNDUP A Trek to Nostalgia on a Far From Open Range - READERS' ALBUM - CROSSWORD PUZZLE American Presidents by Eugene T. Maleska - POSTSCRIPTS.
Condition: Very Good.
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SKU: 520-029-002-001
American Heritage - April/May 1979
Birth of Social Security, Life in a Japanese Prison, Mother's Day, David Ingram's Amazing Walk, Fairmont Water Works
COVER: In this detail from the cover of a 1918 Ladies' Home Journal, doughboys take a moment's respite from the push to the Hindenburg line to enjoy radiant thoughts of Mother. For the story of the driven woman who wrought this kind of sentimentality into a national holiday, see page 14. (Courtesy of Collection of Carol Wale. New York) - THE LONGEST WALK: DAVID INGRAM’S AMAZING JOPURNEY. This sixteenth-century Englishman walked from the Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland-or so he said by Charleton Ogburn - HOW MOTHER GOT HER DAY. The strange story of the only national holiday that commemorates a death by James P. Johnson - THE WILDER WEST OF GEORGE LAWTON. A portfolio of frontier GUNSlingers, con men, and hardtases, assembled by a man who was there - A HERITAGE PRESERVED. Capital caravanserai by T. H. Watkins - RAT SHEETS: Invective as art - THE BIRTH OF SOCIAL SECUTIRY. Franklin D. Roosevelt's surprisingly timid role in the long battle to protect the elderly. By Kenneth S. Davis - AMERICAN CHARACTERS. William James Sidis by Richard F. Snow - THE ELLERSLIE LOG. An unusual record of a sad voyage by Barry Dressel - THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE MOUNTAINS: The curious and moving story of a misunderstood sect by T. H. Watkins - LOVE AND GUILT: WOODROW WILSON AND MARY HULBERT. A presidential romance. By Frances W. Saunders - FORBIDDEN DIARY: An American woman's secret journal of life in a Japanese prison camp. By Natalie Crouter - THE COLOSSUS OF STATEN ISLAND: A ponderous memorial to a people who refused to vanish by William C. Franz - FAIRMOUNT: For a little while, Philadelphia's waterworks served as a national symbol of nature and technology - coexisting happily by Michal McMahon - GOOD READING by Barbara Klaw - READERS' ALBUM. Nose job - POSTSCRIPTS
Condition: Very Good.
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SKU: 520-030-003-001
American Heritage - December 1991
Pacific War, The Jeep, "Casablanca": War's Greatest Movie, North Africa
THE COVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: the destroyer Shaw’s magazines explode during the attack that blasted America into World War II - LETTER FROM THE EDITOR - CORRESPONDENCE - THE LIFE AND TIMES by Geoffrey C. Ward. Remembering the Pacific War - THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA by John Steele Gordon. The American superweapon - IN THE NEWS by Bernard A. Weisberger. The first U.S. Japan encounter - AMERICAN MADE by J.M. Fenster. The Jeep - MY BRISH WITH HISTORY by the readers. A date with a bombing - THE TIME MACHINE - MY GUNS: A MEMOIR OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Roger J. Spiller. Seeking the answer to a simple and terrible question: What was it like? - SECRET TREASON by Fulton Oursler, Jr. He wanted only what every journalist of the time did: an exclusive interview with the Duke of Windsor. What he got was a once-in-a-lifetime story that was too hot to print-until now - THE TRANSATLANTIC DUEL: HITLER VS. ROOSEVELT by John Lukacs. In 1941 the President understood better than many Americans the man who was running Germany, and Hitler understood Roosevelt and his country better than we knew - WHAT TO CALL IT? By Elliot Rosenberg. It took us longer to name the war than to fight it - THE BIGGEST THEATRE by Edward L. Beach. Revisiting the seas where American carriers turned the course of history, a Navy man re-creates a time of frightful odds and brilliant gambles - CASABLANCA by Edward Sorel. Desperate improvisations in the face of imminent disaster saw us through the early years of the fight. They also gave us the war’s greatest movie - A PLACE TO BE LOUSY IN by Peter Andrews. North Africa was where the American army learned the hard lessons-none harder than the disaster at Kasserine. This was the campaign that taught us how to fight a war - HARDSHIPS by Robert Pierce. An airman’s sketchbook - EDITORS’ BOOKSHELF
Condition: Very Good.
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SKU: 520-042-008-001
Mechanix Illustrated - December 1962
Para Kiting, Hula Hoop Submarine, '63 Valiant
SPECIAL FEATURES — Para Kiting New Family Sport (Cover) - Which Gasoline Should You Buy?. - New "Toys" Go Electronic - Dreaming Of A Way Out Christmas? - Hula Hoop Submarine - TOM McCAHILL — Mail For McCahill - Tests The '63 Pontiac - Tests The '63 Valiant - REGULAR FEATURES — Bright Idea: Push Button Lock - Outdoors: What To Give Outdoorsmen - It's New - MIMI - Inventions Wanted! - SHORT FEATURES — Experimental Plane Has Pusher Prop - Okinawa's Magic Bottles - WOW! - Half Scale Antique GUNS - Hearing Without Ears - House Built Of Wooden Bricks - DEPARTMENTS — Dear Editor - Science Shorties - Patents Granted - Invention Clinic - NEED AN EXTRA BEDROOM? — SPECIAL FEATURES: - Nails You Never Knew - Concrete Blocks Come of Age - SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SECTION — Gifts for Craftsmen - Musical Doll Cradle - Go Fry a Marble - The Balky Burro - Gifts for Photo Fans - The Whirling Doll - The Kookie Kangaroo - Early American Scales - Super String Telephone - HOME AND SHOP — Extra Bedroom - Quarter Inch Drill Makes a Buffet - AUTOMOTIVE — Beating Old Man Winter - Service Tips From Detroit - PHOTOGRAPHY — Time In The Dark - PAINTING — Fresh Paint Tips - DEPARTMENTS — Home Hints - Golden Hammer Award Winners
Condition: Very Good.
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SKU: 650-058-415-001
Mechanix Illustrated - February 1966
How to Laminate a Door, Trouble with Alternators
The Case of the Hovering Houseboat - A New Career for You - The Amazing New Energy Box - Yes, There Are Low Cost Ocean Vacations! - The GUNS That Won't Die! - Mail for McCahill - Tom McCahill's 20th Anniversary Issue! - Dares Compare: '46 Buick '66 Buick - Dares Compare: '46 Ford '66 Ford - MIMI: Touch ee Brush - Inventions Wanted! - Outdoors: Readers Write In - It's New! - Biggest Dipper - The Little Engine That Did - Don't Mash the Actors! - Little Bang in the Backyard - Just an Old Fashioned Spinning Wheel - A Settle Is for Sittin’ - Cube Table - Pegged Coat Rack 95 The Grinder That Sands & Polishes & Hones - Home and Shop Shorts - Valet for Junior - How to Laminate a Door - Polygon Planter - Shop Stool - See Through Gate - Shop Shorts - Panoramic Pictures with a $3 Camera! - Photo Shorts - Pole Holder for Photofloods - Car Care: The Trouble with Alternators - Service Tips from Detroit - Dear Editor - The Hot Line - Patents Granted - Subscription Coupon - MI's Hardware Store - Golden Hammer Award Winners - The House Doctor
Condition: Very Good.
| Price: $9.95 | |
SKU: 650-062-453-001
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