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Category: Feature

‘The Woman King’ and the Warrior Women of Dahomey: Has Hollywood Finally Gotten History Right?

by Sean E. Cunningham9/22/20223/16/2023
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Who Shot The Iconic ‘Fort Worth Five’ Photo of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

by Richard Selcer and Donna Donnell9/21/20223/4/2024

Sherlock Holmes: The History of the Mystery

by Melinda Caric9/21/20229/20/2022

Iran and Iraq Fought a War for 8 Years, Killed Millions and Achieved Nothing

by Chris McNab9/20/20229/21/2022
A nurse helps prepare a patient for an operation at the 7th Surgical Hospital, a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH), at Blackhorse base camp near Saigon in 1968. Nurses were among the earliest U.S. service members to arrive in Vietnam.

Nurses in Vietnam: Putting Themselves in Danger to Keep Men Alive

by Tom Edwards9/20/20222/27/2023
Vintage print of a runner rounding the bases in an early New York baseball game (hand-colored lithograph), 1891. Published in New York by Louis Prang & Company.

Baseball Team Owners Played Dirty to Stop Players’ Unions

by Peter Dreier and Robert Elias9/20/20229/20/2022
Luftwaffe unit paddling a raft in the Mediterranean

‘Let Nothing Pass’: How the Royal Navy Blocked the Axis Retreat From North Africa

by Peter Kentz9/15/20229/16/2022
Recovered photos published in newspapers

Can You Help Solve These Gettysburg Photo Mysteries?

by John Banks9/14/20229/14/2022
Drawing of actor Joseph Jefferson in costume as Asa Trenchard.

‘Our American Cousin’: The Play That Lured Lincoln to His Doom

by Daniel B. Moskowitz9/13/20229/13/2022

The Time the US Actually Welcomed a Russian Blockade—During the Civil War

by Rick Beard9/12/20224/27/2024

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