July/August 1999

Editor's Note

A Sense of Place

A Conversation with . . .
Historian David Hackett Fischer talks about the importance of regional identity.

A Peopled Wilderness
A new exhibition explores the way in which the Adirondacks became Arcadia. By Rachel Galvin

A Valley Divided
Edward L. Ayers describes how neighboring towns chose opposite sides in the Civil War.

Preserving the Past

Low Blows and High Rhetoric
The University of Oklahoma preserves political advertising in the age of television. By Maggie Riechers

Around the Nation

Ernest Hemingway at 100
Illinois and Idaho celebrate the life of the writer who made the declarative sentence a work of art. By Richard Carter

Where Settlers and Sioux Collided: A Bozeman Retrospective
A Montana conference explores the destiny of the West. By Meredith Hindley