May/June 2023

How many ways can a father’s passions affect his daughter? Let me count them.

Many employers began offering health insurance as an inducement to potential employees in the 1950s. Over a 20-year period, the number of Americans covered by health insurance grew 700 percent. The health insurance industry had exploded.

Steph Opitz at Bookshop.org — where every purchase supports local bookstores — recommends these upcoming titles.

In 1923, a journalist bemoaned Americans’ tendency to waste their money and be taken in by the cheap and emotional.

A man breaks his wrist on his employer’s property while fending off a Canada goose. Should the employer pay?

Matrimonial ads in the late 1800s helped our young country grow.

I’m ready to get a cat. Now what?

America depended on Europe for its symphony conductors until 1958, when Leonard Bernstein became the first native-born American to conduct one of the country’s five major orchestras.

Impress dinner guests at your next summer party by serving paella — a classic one-dish meal.

Introduced by the Milwaukee Road in 1935, the Twin Cities Hiawatha passenger train quickly gained national attention for its exceptional speed.

The task of sorting and organizing hundreds or thousands of photographs can seem daunting, but there’s no better time than now to take on the project.

Improve posture with this simple yet effective back-strengthening exercise.

Women and children in crisis get much more than just a new outfit.

Go on a glorious 350-mile drive that embraces the entire history of popular music, from gospel to soul to jazz to country to rock.

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.”
—Christopher Hitchens

Back in 1961, when America’s top TV shows were Wagon Train, Bonanza, and Gunsmoke, television critic Harriet Van Horne couldn’t imagine how television could get any worse.

Test your word wisdom with our managing editor’s short quiz.

Rockwell’s Four Freedoms series, which includes Freedom of Speech, helped raise millions for the war effort.

Let’s redefine masculinity so dads can give boys what they need.

When someone you love has a terminal illness in middle age, it leaves you grasping for answers.

Try this healthy side dish with an Argentinean flair.

The children dropped down to their hands and knees, scurrying from bloom to bloom — like the ants and beetles that pollinated them — voraciously culling.

Take a journey to the Earth’s earliest known audible communication.

To be in Indiana in May and June is to know what God had in mind at Eden’s creation, minus the naked people.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist talks about his new novel, Swamp Story, and the thrill and challenge of writing funny.