🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

"No one knew who fired that shot or whether it was accidental or deliberate. But in the tension-packed atmosphere on Lexington Green, that gunshot precipitated a burst of shooting that spilled blood on both sides." More from John Ferling in our new issue: americanheritage.com/shots-heard-ro…

"The U.S. has experienced a flurry of domestic terrorism events in recent years. My hope is that the #OklahomaCityBombing serves as a powerful reminder of the lasting scars of political violence." More from Calvin Warner on the bombing's 30th anniversary: americanheritage.com/oklahoma-city-…

#Vietnam celebrated the 50th anniversary of its reunification last week. In 2023, on the anniversary of the U.S.'s withdrawal from the country, we shared this collection of the many essays we've published over the years on the conflict. See it here: americanheritage.com/how-we-saw-vie…

Overshadowed by Lexington and Concord, Menotomy appears as a footnote, if cited at all, in standard histories of the #AmericanRevolution. And yet it saw the most violent and deadly fighting on April 19, 1775, says Michael Ruderman. More in our new issue: americanheritage.com/forgotten-batt…

"THE WAR IN EUROPE IS ENDED!" But how did it end? On the 40th anniversary of #VEDay, this American Heritage essay chronicled the chaotic events that led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of #WWII in Europe. Read it here: americanheritage.com/last-days-thir…

"For democracy to survive and continue to flourish, citizens must understand and support its essential conditions—binding one another in a civic bargain to govern themselves." Read more from Brook Manville and Josiah Ober in our Winter 2025 issue: americanheritage.com/renewing-ameri…

"There are trees and there is sky, the immense, blessed overarching sky of the Mall." - David McCullough in his Spring 1986 American Heritage Magazine essay "I Love Washington." americanheritage.com/i-love-washing…

"Even as humanity supposedly becomes more uniform and interconnected, so too our world grows increasingly vulnerable and dangerous, as the margins of human error and misapprehension shrink—from Ukraine to Taiwan to the Middle East," writes Victor Davis Hanson. americanheritage.com/wars-annihilat…

"The events of 1845 to 1848 came close to destroying the republic. The first fruits of this expansion were turbulence, uncertainty, and the most contentious and violent time in American history." More from Elliot West in our Summer 2024 issue: americanheritage.com/two-years-made…

"Many journalists are admired for the work they've done, but few were as beloved across the U.S. for bringing the humanity and truth home to readers by reporting it through the eyes of the average GI." Read more about the great #ErniePyle from Gil Klein: americanheritage.com/remembering-er…

"Year by year the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic grew thinner—but until the last old soldier was gone, Decoration Day in a New England town was a moving memorial to 'the War.'" Read more about the origins of #MemorialDay in our archives: americanheritage.com/old-vets

"The primary American mistake in its treatment of #Canada has never been moral, for Canada is the supreme test of the U.S.'s international morality, and thus far the test has been passed with first-class honors," wrote Bruce Hutchinson. From the archives: americanheritage.com/canada-and-uni…

"A conjecture, worthy of a certainty, is that no U.S. soldier on Omaha Beach at high noon, June 6, 1944, gave thought to being present at a turning point in world history." Read more about the importance of #DDay from a soldier who was there 81 years ago: americanheritage.com/d-day-what-it-…