Elizabeth Partridge, DAR Magazine Publications Coordinator

Did you hear our exciting news? Our subscribers who follow our Facebook page did! American Spirit has received two 2018 APEX Awards: We received the Magazine Writing Award for the entire January/February 2018 issue and the Feature Writing Award for the “Wreaths Across America” feature in the November/December 2017 issue

Elizabeth Partridge, DAR Magazine Publications Coordinator

The March/April 2018 issue of American Spirit magazine is our 8th Annual Tribute to Women’s History Month. This is always one of our most popular issues and is a pleasure to work on every year. Our past March/April editions have featured women such as Margaret Fuller, an early women’s rights

Elizabeth Partridge, DAR Magazine Publications Coordinator

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While American Spirit complements the early American history featured

Jennifer Minus, National Chair, DAR Magazine

As I read the November/December 2017 American Spirit article chronicling wreath-laying ceremonies, I was struck by how often these ceremonies have figured in my own personal DAR story. The first DAR wreath-laying I attended occurred when I was a Cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and I

Elizabeth Partridge, DAR Magazine Publications Coordinator

Did you hear our exciting news this past summer? DAR Magazine National Chair Jennifer Minus announced during the 126th Continental Congress that American Spirit magazine received two new APEX awards!  Our publication received the Grand Award for Feature Writing for the article “Long May She Wave: The Story of

Elizabeth Partridge, DAR Magazine Publications Coordinator

We are excited to announce that American Spirit magazine has joined DAR Headquarters, the DAR Museum and the DAR Library on Facebook! With our new Facebook page, readers now have the opportunity to interact with other readers, receive updates on the latest issue, behind-the-scenes teasers and more. “Like” our page

Elizabeth Partridge, DAR Magazine Publications Coordinator

Documentation is such an important aspect of obtaining DAR membership, and many older records required for admission into the organization may be difficult to read, require extensive preservation or may even be lost or missing. With that in mind, the January/February 2017 issue of American Spirit features stories that spotlight

Elizabeth Partridge, DAR Magazine Publications Coordinator

As the publications coordinator for the DAR Magazine Office, I am excited to write about our current issue of American Spirit.

Putting together the November/December 2016 issue of American Spirit magazine was especially rewarding because we had the pleasure of working with the Fox River Valley Chapter of Algonquin

Denise Doring VanBuren, First Vice President General and Editor-In-Chief

It’s exciting to share the inaugural edition of new blog installments that will regularly focus on the American Spirit magazine. This entry goes “behind-the-scenes” of a feature from the latest issue!

In addition to editing our Society’s publications since 2004, I was, coincidentally, involved in a story that is

Denise Doring VanBuren, Organizing Secretary General and Editor-In-Chief

Love American history? Proud to be a member of Today’s DAR? Committed to maximizing the value of your membership? Then you likely already subscribe to our National Society’s publications, American Spirit and the Daughters newsletter. But guess what? There’s never been a better time to sign up or renew, thanks