Volume 38 Issue 11 November 1988

Lux Aeterna

Richard Cavendish looks at the impact of soap king Lord Leverhulme on the foundation of Port Sunlight.

Why the Confederacy Lost

Brian Holden Reid opens our two-headed debate on the American Civil War by arguing that the South failed to use revolutionary methods to full advantage.

Ike and Vietnam

Melanie Billings-Yun investigates President Eisenhower's motives and methods in the spring of 1954, when French collapse in Indochina brought pressures for direct American intervention against Communism.