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Stop the Carnage

A pistol-packing American scientist puts his life on the line to reduce "the most serious threat to African wildlife"—the illegal hunting of animals for food—and to STOP THE CARNAGE
By Paul Raffaele

Rethinking Jamestown

America's first permanent colonists have long been considered lazy and incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a prolonged drought—not indolence—that almost did them in
By Jeffery L. Sheler

Return of a Virtuoso

Following a debilitating stroke, the incomparable jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had to start over
By Marya Hornbacher

James Boswell's Scotland

The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
By Tom Huntington

The Aztecs: Blood and Glory

A new exhibition probes the contradictions of an advanced civilization that practiced human sacrifice
By Dan Hofstadter

Cabin Fever

As Muscovites get rich on oil, dachas—, the rustic country houses that nourish the Russian soul—, get gaudy
By Craig Mellow

Washington Takes Charge

Confronting the British in Boston in 1775, Gen. George Washington honed the personal qualities that would carry the day in war and sustain the new nation in peace
By Joseph J. Ellis

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