AMERICAN GOLDSolid-gold coins were legal tender for most of the nation’s history. In their brilliant surfaces we can see our past fortunes. by Q. David Bowers
BENET AND THE ENSIGN FROM ALABAMAEighty years and three wars later, this young Southerner was still angry about Appomattox. It took a Yankee poet to change his mind. by Everett Wood
A CONFEDERATE ODYSSEYAll this Florida boy wanted to do was rejoin his regiment. Instead they drafted him into the Confederate secret service. by Charles C. Hemming
CALIFORNIA: THE ART OF THE STATECalifornia has always been as much a state of mind as a geographical entity. Here, in pictures, is how artists have expressed its splendid promise. by Jerome Tarshis
EDWARD BOK & THE SIMPLE LIFEAt the turn of the century, a crusading magazine editor exhorted women to seek peace of mind and body through simplicity. For a generation, they listened. by David Shi
THE AERO VIEWFor sixty-five years this photographic company has been recording America from overhead. by Kenneth Finkel
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