Special Report
End-of-Century Comment by FSU Faculty from the editor -
Millennial Malaise by David Gruender -
What would Galileo make of the world today? Lavished with a wealth of scientific knowledge undreamed of in his day, we're behaving as if all this gaudy progress is fundamentally scary, if not outright boring.
Green Promise by Joseph Travis
with sidebar: Cleaning up After Communism by Roy C. Herndon -
Of all the immense contributions America's wealth and leadership made to the world in the 20th century, surely one of the most telling is how the nation (finally) set an example of how to quit killing the environment.
The Changing Politics of Place by Patrick O'Sullivan -
What began as America's "manifest destiny" a century ago has become an increasingly ominous game of global chess where the rules keep changing right along with the players.
The Great American Gold Rush by William Serow -
Since 1900, nearly 50 million people were legally allowed to declare the U.S. as their Promise Land, while millions more tried and failed. What will the arrival of tomorrow's anxious millions mean?
The Return to Religious War by John Kelsay -
From the Crusades to Kosovo, religious conflict has provided history with a cavalcade of gore. Ideology held the field in two world wars this century, with religion biding its time.
Other Features
Failing for Words...
by Patrick A. Smith -
History will surely record the Holocaust as the defining comment on the depths of human depravity, and not just for the century unfortunate enough to witness the event firsthand. Even the most gifted writers have stumbled when trying to deal with the chilling dimensions of the Final Solution.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998)
An American Mind for An American Century
by Andy Lindstrom -
The liberal establishment never produced a more scholarly voice, heard throughout the decades of the United States' debut as a dominant world power.
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