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April 2014

Features

An unlikely place for immigrants from central Asia, New Hampshire is an ideal adopted homeland

Strong and brave, the Amazons were a force to be reckoned with in Greek mythology—but did the fierce female warriors really exist?

From country music to herbal cocktails to horseshoe crabs to Rodin, our third annual list takes you to cultural gems worth mining

If you’re looking for some of America’s best bourbon, denim and burgers, go to Japan, where designers are re-engineering our culture in loving detail

Tom Downey

John Singleton Copley left for Europe on the eve of the American Revolution. A historian and her teenage son made the trip to see why

Thirty years ago, astronauts set out on the first untethered space odyssey

No novelist captured the muddy waterway and its people like the creator of Huckleberry Finn, as a journey along the river makes clear

David Carkeet

A new poem by Carol Muske-Dukes

From the Castle

Letters to the Editor

This summer, a ship named after naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry will set sail