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The article focuses on the use of patriotic images and sentiments by the paper stainers in the U.S. to encourage the domestic consumers to buy locally produced wall papers and hangings after the independence of the country. The paper stainers of the U.S. aspired to match the quality of the output of their European competitors.

The article reports on the changes on the signature of the Treasurer of the United States on paper currencies. The signature in American paper currencies has been changed from Dorothy Andrews Elston to Dorothy Andrews Kabis. This change was made following the treasurer's marriage to W.L. Kabis in September.

Reports on William C. Durant's mark on United States history as holding the record for the largest short-term real losses. Definition of short-term paper and short-term real losses; Durant as a major figure in the history of the American automobile industry; Rise and fall of Durant's career; Number of automobile companies created by Durant; Durant's relationship with General Motors company.

The article focuses on the controversy involving Warren Gamaliel Harding, former President of the U.S. The "American Heritage" magazine has attempted to publish the controversial love letters between Harding and Marion, Ohio-resident Carrie Phillips. It is suggested that the controversial love letters should be preserved at a reputed library for the presidency record.

In July 1899, the New York City newsboys formed their own union and went out on strike against Joseph Pulitzer's "World" and William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal." A confederation of children challenged the two most powerful publishers in the US. The newsboys were in the enviable position of being irreplaceable as the newspapers' major distributors. These newsboys were different from the earlier generations of street waifs. The wholesale price increase in Hearst's "Journal" and Pulitzer's "World" lead to the strike. The first reported events of the strike were in Long Island City when newsies discovered the deliveryman had been cheating them and giving them a short count on their bundles of papers. Morris Cohen may have led the strike in Manhattan. The newsboys prevented the delivery wagons from leaving with papers. The "Journal" and "World" were reluctant to take the strike seriously at first.

The article provides information on factors which led to the fallout between former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and his physician Colonel Edward M. House, also known as his "second personality." According to House, it was their illnesses and the resentment amongst the people around, which became the prime reason of their separation. Edward's book "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House," published after the death of Wilson, led to a controversy.

The article focuses on an examination of private papers, including family letters, of Colonel Robert E. Lee of the U.S. Army, which reveals that he did not take the decision to fight for the South, the Confederacy, during the American Civil War. The examination discloses that Lee, in 1857, told a brother-in-law that his patriotism embraced the Union, the North.

Focuses on the issues concerning the access of presidential papers in the U.S. Insight into the thinking of politicians; Right to private property; Ways to find presidential documents.

Focuses on the Arts and Crafts movement in America, born in response to the low quality of machine-made goods, which began in isolated workshops and spread to the public, preaching the values of the simple, the useful and the handmade. History of the arts and crafts movement; Examples of historic arts and crafts objects; Exhibition that the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of arts and crafts; British origins with art critic John Ruskin and designer William Morris; Wallpapers, chairs, carpets and tapestries that Morris designed; Morris' notion that art should be useful and incorporated into everyday activity; Americanization of the arts and crafts movement through Elbert Hubbard and Gustav Stickley; Roycroft community in New York that Hubbard dedicated to printing books and making furniture; Workshop that Stickley set up in Eastwood, New York to develop "Craftsman" furniture; Self-promotion by Stickley and Hubbard; Description of a typical Stickley chair; Development of arts and crafts societies in Boston, Chicago, and New York; How metalwork paid homage to the Middle Ages; Pottery styles, including from the Rookwood Pottery Company of Ohio; Development of craft as therapy, including at the Marblehead Pottery of Massachusetts; End of the movement and the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Hoss Radbourn is considered by some people to be baseball's greatest pitcher. Charles Hoss Radbourn played for the Providence Grays of the National League in 1884. During August and September 1884, he won 18 straight games within the space of a month. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1939. In 1884 teams only employed two starting pitchers and substitution of players was forbidden. The other pitcher was Charlie Sweeney. The season got off to an erratic start. Radbourn was celebrated in the Providence papers. The physical effects of Radbourn's pitching were evident after each game. His pitching arm would be so sore the next morning that he could not lift his arm to comb his hair. After the 1884 season he suffered a few mediocre ones until the 1889 and 1890 seasons.

The article discusses the Mormons' story of struggles from poverty, persecution, and their accumulation of wealth to their rise to power. It features the year 1846 when the Mormons began their journey from the newly built city of Nauvoo, Illinois crossing the ice to Mississippi. This paper chronicles the forcing out of the Mormons from Illinois to Mississippi from as told by Sarah D. Rich in her manuscript. INSET: GRANITE IS FOREVER.

The article discusses the relationship between the American businessman and the politicians. It features the 1871 caricature of Tammany Hall's chieftain created by Thomas Nast symbolizing the close and sometimes corrupt partnership of America's important men. This paper looks into the issues of bribery by corporations to the government officials and the implications to the country.

The article focuses on the martyrdom of Sam Davis, a soldier of the Confederate States of America, who was honored posthumously by erecting a memorial in the state of Tennessee. In the war of 1861, he got enrolled as a scout and did extraordinarily well. Ultimately, he was entrusted with a mission of delivering some important military papers to some officers, but was captured by enemies and ultimately led to his execution.

The author focuses on U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He recalls the dinner meeting that Roosevelt gave in 1939 for the trustees and historians to discuss plans for the management of the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York. He cites that the president's grave was put close to the Roosevelt Library, and by the family home which became a national shrine visited by people every year. He mentions the literary works of Roosevelt including official papers, personal letters and memoirs.

The article discusses the mysteries in the life and works of former U.S. President Warren G. Harding. The first mystery which is of concern to politics and to the American life is the color of his skin. Another mystery about him concerns on his raising of a woman. The other two mysteries is about the manner of his death and the fate of his private papers.

The article focuses on the permit of local ships to charter for mass expeditions under the Redemption system, a most sordid business. The emigrants who could not pay for passage will be carried without prepayment but on the arrival at American port, they will be auctioned off as bond servants. Further, before they boarded in the ship, the travelers were given a paper to sign in case of death at sea in which the surviving redemptioners were work out the time of those who had died redemptioners.

The article presents a discussion of the joint collaboration or ghostwriting in the production of state papers in the United States. The role of ghostwriters has become a necessity in the modern-day and high-speed campaigning. They help to take the candidate's thoughts and put them into readable, speakable form in which he can present them effectively to the electorate. More information on the ghostwriters in the White House in Washington, D.C. has been detailed.

The article presents the life story of Carry A. Nation, the woman well-remembered in America with the hatchet and as the campaigner to save men from the drunkard's fate. She was born in Kentucky on 1846, married briefly to a physician who later died from alcohol causes. She remarried David Nation. This paper describes her escapades of wrecking saloons.

The article presents symbolism of valentines day. An overview of the conception of valentines day is presented. St. Valentine is a Christian priest who criticizes Romans' deities and was beheaded about February 14, A.D. 271. Symbolisms including Miss Pickle, Miss Preserve, paper lace valentine made by Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts, the lithographed valentine made in 1842, and the valentines created by Francesco Bartolozzi are discussed.

The article presents David Davis' experience of being a lawyer. He and Abraham Lincoln joined the three-month circuit of fourteen countries comprising the Eight Judicial Circuit in Central Illinois. Davis' letters to his wife Sarah mentions Abraham Lincoln and his wife and sons. The paper emphasizes the friendship of Lincoln and Davis. A map showing their destination in Central Illinois is also presented.

This article discusses some developments in American life in the last half-century. With American Heritage approaching its fiftieth birthday in December 2004, five leading historians and cultural commentators were asked to each pick 10 leading developments in American life in the last half-century. The author says hat old television shows are magically remembered in color, and when he recall typing college term papers in the early 1970s, he does so on a click-clacking plastic computer keyboard rather than a massive metal Royal. Scanning own groceries and avoiding the gum-chewing gossiping checkout girl may be worth it for people, but it is even more worth it for the supermarket, with its just-in-time inventory.

The article focuses on the controversy associated with the U.S. war on Japan in 1940's led by the U.S. President Harry S. Truman. In the midst of the fighting on Okinawa, which began in April 1945, President Truman received a warning that the invasion could cost as many as 500,000 to 1,000,000 American lives. The document containing this estimate 'Memorandum on Ending the Japanese War,' was one of a series of papers written by former President Herbert Hoover at Truman's request in May 1945. The Hoover memorandum is well known to students of the era, but they have generally assumed that Truman solicited it purely as a courtesy to Hoover and Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, who had been Hoover's Secretary of State. According to Robert Ferrell, the editor of Truman's private papers, Truman had seized upon the memo and sent memoranda to his senior advisers asking for written judgments from each. This prooved that Truman knew about such a high casualty figure far in advance of the decision to use atom bombs.

Focuses on the book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds' by Charles Mackay and its its descriptions of financial crises in history. Discussion of the tulip crisis that hit Holland in the 1630s; Prices paid for the rare viceroy tulip root; How John Law created the 'Mississippi Bubble' based on the issuance of paper money; Reasons why the South Sea Company was created, which led to the 'South Sea Bubble'; Comments of Whig leader Robert Walpole about artificially raising the value of a stock.

Chronicles the invention and development of office equipment in the United States. Invention of the telegraph in 1837 by Samuel Morse; Manufacture of the first typewriter in 1873 by Remington; Development of the telecommuting technology during 1990s.

The eighteenth century was an aristocratic age, even in relatively egalitarian America. The elite were the major landowners in the plantation colonies, such as Thomas Jefferson, and the great merchants in port cities, such as John Hancock. Therefore it is hardly surprising that of all the Founding Fathers, only two were not born into the higher reaches of American society. One was statesman Benjamin Franklin. The other low-born Founding Father, however, Alexander Hamilton, started out life at a social level far below that of Franklin. By the time he died, however, he had not only helped mightily to found the American Republic (he was a signer of the Constitution and wrote two-thirds of the Federalist Papers, which have been fundamental constitutional literature ever since), but he had established a financial system that gave the new U.S. the best credit rating and money supply in the Western world. He was truly the Founding Father of the American economy.

Discusses instances in history showing Americans' tendency to invade others' privacy for politically-related gains since before the Revolution. Blount conspiracy in 1797; Burr conspiracy in 1807; John Henry papers in 1812; Credit Mobilier scandal in 1871.

Comments on the discovery of many previously unknown papers that had been kept by Margaret `Daisy' Suckley, a distant relative and frequent companion of Franklin Roosevelt. The book, `Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley'; The beginning of their friendship; More.

Examines the way the United States government met the financial costs of the Civil War. Issuance of large quantities of paper money; Tax increases; Loans; Impact on the future of the United States economy.

Features events in U.S. history which occurred in December, 1938. Formation of the first presidential library by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Tradition in which presidential papers remained the private property of departing presidents; Voting of Shirley Temple, a child actress, as the number-one box-office star for the fourth consecutive year.

Discusses Alger Hiss and his dealings with Whittaker Chambers in New Deal Washington half a century ago. Mention of Hiss's autobiography, "Recollections of a Life"; Accusation by Chambers that Hiss was a Communist; Indictment of Hiss on two counts of perjury, for denying that he had seen Chambers after 1937 and for denying that he had turned over classified papers to him; Denial of wrongdoing by Hiss; View that Hiss chose to portray himself as the victim of reactionaries who wanted to discredit achievements of the U.S. in which he participated.

The article offers news briefs related to American history. The skeleton of one of the first American warships has been recovered from the Lake Champlain and is now on the beach below Fort Ticonderoga. The National Historical Publications Commission is considering the creation of microfilm edition of the Papers of the Continental Congress.

This article informs that a century ago the New York Times put up a new building in midtown Manhattan, New York its cheerful terra cotta has long been debauched by a rebarbative gray cladding, and when the subway station there opened on October 27, 1904, the publisher, Adolph S. Ochs, exercised enough clout to get the stop named after his paper. A wonderfully beguiling and spirited birthday salute, Times Square Style as Graphics From the Great White Way, by Vicki Gold Levi and Steven Heller, teems with the sorts of images Times Square and its enterprises have used to sell themselves like matchbooks, postcards, menus, chinaware, posters and song sheets, all of them together conjuring a place.

This article presents a discussion regarding the least charismatic U.S. President. The author says that if the choice is restricted to elected Presidents, the winner has to be Franklin Pierce. While in office from 1853 to 1857, Pierce did little to solve the unsolvable problems of a nation headed toward civil war. On his departure, he burned nearly all his papers. He left no memoirs, and to this day there is no satisfactory biography. The result of all this is that while planning for former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, in 2009, began nearly a decade in advance, Pierce will be lucky to get a line of agate type next to the crossword puzzle on his bicentennial this November 23.

September 11, 2001, was first day of kindergarten, a new school a long subway ride up the spine of Manhattan, for the daughter of the editor of the journal "American Heritage." A couple of mornings later she appeared with a carefully folded paper airplane, a line of windows with passengers behind them crayoned along its sides. An assistant editor, she is keenly interested in photography. That began in what had been a most unflag-waving city that afternoon, flags in deli windows, on bicycles, on fire hydrants, on dumpsters, and so thickly on buildings that we seemed to have re-created a long-gone era, in which, if the old trade cards are to be believed, every parapet on every department store was ablaze with Old Glory.

Gordon Lillie — a gunfighter, rancher, buffalo hunter, and Indian agent better known as Pawnee Bill— was inspired to go West as a teenager in 1874 after reading the adventures of Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok in lurid weeklies and dime novels. Lillie soon started a touring Wild West Show of his own, demonstrating that the myth of the Old West is nearly as old as the Old West itself. All this makes it appropriate that the Hopalong Cassidy Museum, scheduled to open in early August 2003 will be located in the Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Supper, a "western complex" in Wichita, Kansas, where tourists can eat barbecue served by cowboys. After being hidden away for two years, the Constitution is about to resume its traditional position of importance — the four-page paper Constitution of 1788, that is, which has been in storage since 2001 while the National Archives and Records Administration renovated its exhibition space.

Reports the acquisition of an archive of the late novelist Jack Kerouac by the New York Public Library. Inclusion of handwritten cards for playing a fantasy game of Kerouac's invention; Exhibition of Kerouac's papers and artifacts in the 'Victorians, Moderns, and Beats: New in the Berg Collection, 1994-2001' exhibition.

Features several roadside tourist attractions in the United States. Trees of Mystery in the Klamath, California; Parrot Jungle in Miami, Florida; Rock City in Lookout Mountain, Georgia; The Paper House in Rockport, Massachusetts; Dinosaur Gardens Prehistorical Zoo in Ossineke, Michigan.

The article presents information about the topics that will appear in the upcoming issues of the journal "American Heritage." One of these topics will discuss the relationship between U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his friend LeMoyne Billings. Another paper will present a brief historical synopsis of African American loyalists of the American Revolution.

The article focuses on the history and development of gardening in the United States citing the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society. Dr. E.G. Swem of Williamsburg, Virginia presented his paper "Brothers of the Spade dealing with the botanical interests of Peter Collinson of London and John Custis of Williamsburg. "Gardens and Gardening in the Early Maryland," was published in the December 1850 issue of "Maryland Historical Magazine."

It is called a slave pen, but it's really a cage. The wooden structure, 20 by 30 feet and two stories high, imprisoned slaves who had been bought by a Kentucky dealer until he could dispose of them. Inside, men were chained in place, while women could move about, cooking in a fireplace and doing their best to deal with the tight quarters, tiny windows, and complete lack of sanitation. The pen, later converted to a barn, was bought and restored by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, in Cincinnati, and will form the centerpiece of that museum when it opens on August 23, 2004.