CURRENT ISSUE
May 2002
Features
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Home on the Range
A new public television series transplants three American families to the frontier West of 1883, without electricity, running water or visits to the mall
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Artemisia's Moment
After being eclipsed for centuries by her father, Orazio, Artemisia Gentileschi, the boldest female painter of her time, gets her due
Torpedoed!
Historian Diana Preston presents findings about the Lusitania and draws on recently discovered interviews to bring the drama to life
Kung Fu U.
At schools near Shaolin, the famous Buddhist temple, students from all over china vie to be the next Jet Li or Jackie Chan
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Small Matters
Millions of years ago, leafcutter ants learned to grow fungi. But how? And why? And what do they have to teach us?
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A Rally to Remember
Even at lollygagging speeds, Italy's Mille Miglia road show stirs nostalgic hearts
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We Saw Him Land!
In a long-lost letter an American woman describes Lindbergh's tumultuous touchdown in Paris75 years ago this month
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Drawn from Prehistory
Deep within Mexico's Baja peninsula, nomadic painters left behind the largest trove of ancient art in the Americas
Departments
Downtown Digs
One step ahead of bulldozers, Urban archaeologists pull historic treasures from America's cityscapes
Hell's Bells
The 19th-century trolley bell may have ding-ding-dinged, but the factory bell clanged the workday