Gettysburg: The Killer Angels Comes to the Screen

Writing about the Civil War in Specimen Days, poet Walt Whitman prophesied that the “real war will never get in the books.” Essentially, he issued a bold challenge to following generations of writers to capture the essence of battle – that cacophony of drama, death, smoke, stench, dauntless battle cries, and soldiers rising – in many cases, vainly – to fight again...
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Letters to the Editor

Featherweights? I enjoy your magazine and the articles you publish. However, I am not an elitist and for Pennsylvania Heritage to devote six pages to such a group as the United Bowmen of Philadelphia (see “No Feather­weight in the Annals of Archery: The United Bowmen of Philadelphia” by Joseph F. Pino in the winter 1993 issue) is uncalled for. But then maybe you are getting to the...
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