American Heritage Magazine
American Heritage February 1957 $3.50
American Heritage Publishing Company, 1957
Table of contents:
THE MAN WHO KILLED CUSTER by Stanley L'estal
WAR MAKES THIEVES, PEACE HANGS THEM ( in an era that condoned smuggling and lawbreaking
the transition from privateer to pirate was easy) by Roger Burlingame
“I FIND NO INTELLECT COMPARABLE TO MY OWN” (Margaret Fuller) by Perry Miller
HOW RAILS SAVED A SEAPORT (John W. Garrett turned the pioneer B&O into a great
instrument for tapping the treasure of the west) by William B. Catton
THE NEEDLESS WAR WITH SPAIN by William E. Leuchtenburg
FIRST IN TOGA, FIRST IN SANDALS— ( George Washington statue in Roman Garb) by
Margaret French Cresson
THE UNLUCKY COLLINS LINE ( An enterprising Yankee briefly ruled Atlantic Sea lanes but a
chain of disasters dogged his great stem packets) by Ralph Whitney
THE UNKNOWN CONSPIRATOR ( Did the mysterious Portuguese sea captain help plot Lincoln's
assassination, or was he an informer?) by Philip Van Doren Stern
THE SLAVE SHIP Rebellion ( The Amistad) by Fred J. Cook
REBELS AND REDCOATS: PARTICIPANTS DESCRIBE THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by
George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin
READING, WRITING AND HISTORY by Bruce Catton
SONG OF THE HOOPS .
American Heritage August 1957 $3.50
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Some of the best historical authors of the 20th century wrote for American
Heritage..
Table of contents:
Victory at New Orleans I. C. S. Forester
Primer from a Green World from his native background, William McGuffey
drew text to educate young Americans. By Walter Havighurst
Philip Hone's New York by Dorothie Bobee
History and How to Write It. By Dixon Wecter
A Few Men in Soldier Suits, a down to Earth Story of the Way in Which the
German Thrust at the Bulge Was Halted. By Helena Huntington Smith
The Philosophers Wife and the Wolf at the Door, Mrs. Bronson Alcott
Soldiers Return. By Dorothy Canfield Fisher
When Cotton Mather Fought the Smallpox. By Lawrence Farmer, M.D.
New England Summer, Winslow Homer. By Richard M. Ketchum
The Terrible Triangle Fire, the Tragedy That Trapped in Killed 146
Employees Started Small but Made the Mark in History. By Tom Brooks
The Spy for Washington, Loyalist John Honeyman Bought Cattle, Kept His
Eyes Open -- and May Have Made the Surprise Victory at Trenton Possible.
By Leonard Faulkner
Book Selection, the French Visit to Civil War America
The Close Lincoln Wore. By Douglas Gorsline
112 Pp., 9 X 12 Hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition.
American Heritage October 1957 $3.50 (on hold)
American Heritage Publishing Company, 1957
Some of the best historical authors of the 20th century wrote for American
Heritage..
Table of contents:
Prescott’s Conquests by Thomas F. McGann
When the President Disappeared by John Stuart Martin
Heyday of the Floating Palace by Leonard V. Huber
The Sergeant Major’s Strange Mission by George F. Scheer
Churchman of the Desert by Paul Horgan
The Bloody End of Meeker’s Utopia by Marshall Sprague
First by Land by Morton M. Hunt
Doctor Gatling and His Gun by Philip Van Doren Stern
Whither The Course of Empire? by Marshall Davidson
Two Civil War Letters
American Heritage Book Selection
Journal of the Letter-Of-Marque Schooners David Porter And Leo by Captain
George Coggeshall
Reading, Writing, And History by Bruce Catton
George Washington’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Slept Here
112 Pages., 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition.
American Heritage December 1957 $3.50
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Apostles to the Indians, John Eliot Preached to the Massachusetts Savages,
Printed the Bible in Their "Barbarous Lingual," and Tried to Reply to
Their Disquieting Questions. By Francis Russell
The Boz Ball, to welcome Charles Dickens, New York Staged Its Greatest
Party-and Then Spoiled Everything by Trying to Repeat It at Half Price.
By Ada Nisbet
America: Curator of British Political Relics, and English Observer Says
Are Party Workings, Patronage, Sheriffs, and Grand Jury Is a Museum Pieces
from Britain's past. By Keith Kyle .
And Iowa Christmas By Paul Engel
Fire Heating Farmer of the Confederacy, at Sumter Edmund Ruffin
Unwittingly Pushed toward Ruined the Region Whose Agricultural Economy He
Had Revived by Alfred Steinberg
the Great Hide Man of Destiny, the Daring Epic of the Filibusters Reached
a Lurid Climax When Little William Walker Captured the Sovereign State of
Nicaragua, by Edward S. Wallace
the Third Day at Gettysburg "We Were There, Waiting-" the Repulse of
Pickets Charge, Described in Little-known Account Written Shortly after
the Battle by Union Officer Frank Aretas Haskell. By Bruce Catton
Bonnet, Book, and Hatch, Weapon in Hand and Biblical Implications on Her
Lips, Carry Nation's Campaign to Save Men from the Drunkard's Fate. By
Stewart H. Holbrook
Farewell to Steam, the Iron Horses That Built America and Nearly All
Gathered on the Other Side of Jordan. By Oliver Johnson
Great Man Eloquent, to an Emotional People, It Is Not the Senator, nor the
Corporation Lawyer, Not the Secretary Of State, but the Poet' s Daniel
Webster Who Still Lives. By Gerald W. Johnson
the Undimmed Appeal of the Gibson Girl by Agnes Rogers
Teddy Roosevelt on the Telephone, by Private Wire from Oyster Bay
Roosevelt Angled for the 1916 Progressive and Republican Nominations, but
His Strategy Backfired and Killed the Progressive Party Edited by John A.
Garrity
128 Pages, 9X12 Hardbound, Good Condition.
American Heritage February 1958 $3.50
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Some of the best historical authors of the 20th century wrote for American
Heritage..
Table of contents:
The Yankee and the Czar by William Harland Hale
“The President Came Forward and the Sun Burst Through The Clouds” by Philip
Van Doren Stern
Unwanted Treasures Of The Patent Office by Donald W. Hogan
Pandemonium at Promontory by Lucius Beebe
Funston Captures Aguinaldo by William F. Zornow
Classmates Divided by Mary Elizabeth Sergent
The Last Stand of Chief Joseph by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
“Now Defend Yourself, You Damned Rascal!” by Elbert B. Smith
The Charleston Tradition by Anthony Harrigan
“Especially Pretty Alice” by Henry F. Pringle
American Heritage Book Selection
Henry Ford and His Peace Ship by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill
The Farmington Canal by Eric Sloane
The Social Structure of Early Massachusetts by Oilman M. Ostrander
111 Pages., 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition.
American Heritage April 1958 $3.50
American Heritage Publishing Company, 1958
Some of the best historical authors of the 20th century wrote for American
Heritage.
Table of contents:
How The Frontier Shaped The American Character by Rev. Allen Billingotn
The Canny Cayuse edited by John, Clark Hunt
When Perry Unlocked the “Gate of the Sun” by William Harlan Hale
F.D.R. vs. the Supreme Court by Merlo J. Pusey
Last Survivors of the Revolution by Elias Brewster Hillard
Father of Our Factory System by Arnold Welles
The Elusive Swamp Fox by George F. Scheer
The Submarine That Wouldn’t Come Up by Lydel Sims
Music had charms
The case of the missing portrait by Richard M. Ketchum
American Heritage Book Selection
A Journal of an Indian Captivity by John Rutherfurd
General Sherman and the Baltimore Belle by Walter Lord
R. I. P., a collection of epitaphs
Reading, Writing, And History by Bruce Catton
112 Pages., 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition
American Heritage June 1958 $3.50
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The Battle of the Saintes by C. S. Forester No American ships were
involved, yet on its outcome hung Great Britain’s recognition of our
independence.
The Legend
Of Jim Hill by Stewart H. Holbrook
The Master Showman Of Coney Island by Peter Lyon On the theory that
the greatest show is people, George Tilyou turned a rich man’s resort
into a playground for the masses.
Border Warrior by Edward S. Wallace Spare, frail, and plagued by old
wounds, Ranald Mackenzie was still “the finest Indian-fighting
cavalryman of them all”.
When Good And Evil Had Roots Two prints by Nathaniel Currier.
No Son Unsung by Rene Kuhn Bryant The dogged effort to record the
life of every Harvard man has reached the class of 1744, and with 3,000
new subjects being added every year, the end is nowhere in sight.
Gusher At Spindletop by William A. Owens
The story of the first great Texas oil
well, which ushered in a new century and a new age, as remembered by
participants.
Painter Of The Revolution by E. H. Silverman The canvases of John
Trumbull, sometime soldier, reluctant artist, have given us our visual
image of the colonies’ struggle to be free.
“Tonight for freedom” by Saunders Redding "At Fort Wagner the Negro
soldier was asked to prove the worth of the "powerful black hand".
President Washington’s Calculated Risk by Dale Van Every
The Enigma Of Dighton Rock by Ruth and Edward Brecher
American Heritage Book Selection
The Ordeal Of Woodrow Wilson by Herbert Hoover
Belated Honor For The Little Savannah
Departments
Reading, Writing, And History by Bruce Catton
112 Pages 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition
American Heritage August 1958 $3.50
American Heritage Publishing Company, 1958
Some of the best historical authors of the 20th century wrote for American
Heritage.
Table of contents:
“Ah, Your Majesty, there is no second” by Alfred F. Loomis
Baghdad on the Freeway by Remi Nadeau
American Heritage Book Selection
The Coming of The Green by Leonard Patrick O’Connor Wibberley
The Days of Boom and Bust by John Kenneth Galbraith
Blondin, the Hero of Niagara by Lloyd Graham
“Get the Prospect Seated…And Keep Talking” by Gerald Carson
Sailor with a Paintbrush by Robert Cowley
The Woods around Us by Betty Flanders Thomson
Crisis at the Antietam by Bruce Catton
Bloody Trek to Empire by Richard L. Neuberger
The Search for the Missing King by Susan Elizabeth Lyman
Jefferson and the Book-Burners by Henry Steele Commager
How to Win an Election
Reading, Writing, and History by Bruce Catton
112 Pages 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition
American Heritage Publishing Company, 1957
Table of contents:
PATROLLING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE by J. C. Furnas
Congress agreed to join Britain in suppressing the brutal and cunning
slave trade, but Southern influence hamstrung the Navy when it came to
enforcing the law.
DAYLIGHT IN THE SWAMP by Stewart H. Holbrook
Old-time logging in the Pacific Northwest was “a wildly wonderful if
tragically heedless era”; there are those who still mourn its passing.
MR. GODEY'S LADY by Ralph Nading Hill
Gentle Sarah Hale, widowed at forty, created our first successful women’s
magazine and popularized the Paris fashions she regarded with deep
distrust.
WAS JOHN SMITH A LIAR? by Marshall Fishwick
One lady, he said saved this head from the block; now another is rescuing
his reputation.
ISAAC SINGER AND HIS WONDERFUL SEWING MACHINE
by Peter Lyon
An erratic genius and his sober-sided partner made their product a
household necessity and built fortunes which their numerous progeny have
spent in ways both beneficent and bizarre.
AMERICAN HERITAGE BOOK SELECTION I
"I'LL PUT A GIRDLE ROUND THE EARTH IN FORTY MINUTES" by Arthur C. Clarke
It took a decade of effort, heart-breaking disappointments, and the
largest ship afloat before Cyrus Field could lay a successful cable across
the Atlantic.
TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM by Francis Russell
A retrospect of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial.
ELEVEN GUNS FOR THE GRAND UNION by Phillips Melville
When American Colonists sorely needed friends, a Dutch island governor
risked political ruin by saluting the rebels’ flag.
AMERICAN HERITAGE BOOK SELECTION II
WILLIAMSTOWN BRANCH by R. L. Duffus
SO YOU'RE GOING 10 AMERICA by D. IV. Brogan
A letter to a French friend.
READING, WRITING, AND HISTORY by Daniel Aaron
A SOUTHERN ARTIST ON THE CIVIL WAR by Bruce Catton
120 page 9x12 hardbound magazine.
American Heritage December 1958 $3.50
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The Lordly Hudson by Carl Carmer Over 350 years a mighty pageant of
history has moved through the myth-haunted valley of the “Great River of
the Mountains”.
Where Ignorant Armies Clashed By Night by E. M. Halliday In the
summer of 1918, with Russia removed from World War I as a result of the
Bolshevik Revolution, the United States sent troops into Russia at two
points.
The Hawthornes In Paradise by Malcolm Cowley Nathaniel was poor
and sunk in his solitude; Sophia seemed a hopeless invalid, but a
late-flowering love gave them at last "a perfect Eden".
A Victorian Christmas Album designed by Leslie Dorsey
Ghosts In The White House by Claude M. Fuess
Last Of The Rebel Raiders by George W. Groh Long after the Civil War
was over, the Shenandoah’s die-hard skipper was still sinking Yankee
ships.
Railroad In A Barn by Fitzhugh Turner Snowshed crews on the Central
Pacific, battling blizzards and snowslides, built “the longest house in
the world”.
The constitution: was it an economic document? by Henry Steele
Commager
Myth On The Map by Lou Ann Everett
Scores of towns and counties all over the nation honor some heroics
largely invented by Parson Weems.
American heritage book selection:
The Tragedy Of King Philip by George Howe
A Century Of Cooperstown prepared by John and Alice Durant
The Great New England Sleigh
T.R. Writes his son
Departments
Reading, Writing, And History by Bruce Catton
112 Pages 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition
American Heritage June 1959 $3.50
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The Elizabethans And America: Part II Of Raleigh and the First
Plantation
The Last Of The Bosses by Francis Russell Part hero, part rogue,
Boston’s Jim Curley triumphed over the Brahmins in his heyday, but
became in the end a figure of pity.
Pentecost In The Backwoods by Bernard A. Weisberger Shocking,
exuberant, exalted, the camp meeting answered the pioneers' demand for
religion and helped shape the character of the West.
Roofs Over Rivers by Richard Sanders Allen Time is taking its
toll of the romantic covered bridge, where once you could exchange
gossip, argue politics, or court your lady fair.
“We Shall Eat Apples Of Paradise …” by Bruce Ingham Granger When
Benjamin Franklin came home from France in diplomatic triumph, he left
behind a lovely, highborn lady mourning the miles between them.
The Glorious Unsafe Fourth by Bradford Smith It was a day when
all the rules were off, and danger was part of the fun.
New York’s Bloodiest Week by Lawrence Lader The draft riots of
1863 turned a great city into a living hell.
All Join In The Chorus by John W. Ripley
For almost two decades at the turn of
the century illustrated songs charmed nickelodeon audiences.
Exploit At Fayal by Wallace C. Baker A lonely, gallant battle fought
by the designer of our flag set the stage for Andrew Jackson's victory
at New Orleans.
American Heritage Book Selection:
The Siege Of Wake Island by John R. Burroughs
“Charlie, Your Son Is A Genius …” The cutouts reproduced on this page
are the work of a gifted child of eight. His name was Charles Dana
Gibson, and he grew up to become the illustrator who created that famous
turn-of-the-century symbol, the Gibson Girl…
Departments
Reading, Writing, And History by J. A. Lukacs
112 Pages 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition, binding is
cracked.
American Heritage February 1967 $3.50
American Heritage Publishing Company, 1967
Some of the best historical authors of the 20th century wrote for American
Heritage.
Table of contents:
Consensus Politics,” 1800–1805 by Louis W. Koenig
American Heritage Book Selection
Love in the Park by Marshall Sprague
“Black Jack” Of the 10th by Richard O’Connor
An American in Paris by Stephen Hess
Purveyor to the West by Lucius Beebe
“Mother, I Do Not Hate To Die” by James Cameron Phifer
Tammany Picked an Honest Man by Lately Thomas
Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make by W. Storrs Lee
“Don’t Let Them Ride over Us” by George M. Heinzman
Trade Cards Compiled by William G. McLoughlin
Hell and High Water by Robert E. Pike
Life and Death of a Primeval Empire
112 Pages 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition
American Heritage June 1967 $3.50
American Heritage Publishing Company, 1967
Some of the best historical authors of the 20th century wrote for American
Heritage..
Table of contents:
Canada and the United States, a Centennial Retrospective by Bruce Hutchison
Canada Exposed: The Look of the Young Nation
A portfolio of photographs by William Notman
How to Make It to the White House without Really Trying by David Lavender
A Pack of Rebels Playing cards by William Aiken Walker
Here Come The Wobblies! by Bernard A. Weisberger
Graves and Grizzlies by Andrew Garcia
Down To the Sea Paintings by Edward Moran
This Hollowed-Out Ground by Carl Carmer
Althea and the Judges by Brooks W. Maccracken
American Heritage Book Selection
The Body Snatchers by Thomas Gallagher
Banns Published: Yale and Vassar
Reading, Writing, and History
Jeff Davis: The Man behind the Image by Bruce Catton
112 Pages 9 X 12 hardbound, Covers Faded, Good Condition