January/February 2003 Editor's Note Commemorations History in a Democratic Age Historian John Lukacs talks with Chairman Bruce Cole about world figures who shaped the last century. Witness to War Artist Otto Dix documents the horrors of World War I. By Linda F. McGreevy Remarkable Inventions The Amazing Adding Subtracting Composing Creating Do-Everything Machine An English countess creates the basis for computer software. By Paulette W. Campbell Partners of the Heart An unconventional partnership leads to an advance in cardiac surgery. By Ronica Roth Notes on Early America The Trial of a Young Nation John Marshall's Supreme Court makes a landmark decision establishing the power of judicial review. By Charles F. Hobson Strange Alliances With the fates of North America still uncertain, the French and three Indian tribes raid a British settlement. By Maggie Riechers Answers from the Archives Lives of Famous Men--The Lost Frescoes Two books may hold clues to murals destroyed in fire five centuries ago. By Rachel Galvin Around the Nation In Focus Donald Simmons celebrates the Great Expedition in South Dakota. By Laura Wolff Scanlan