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Pony Express National Historic Trail in Wyoming

This Patient Rider Spent Months Retracing the Pony Express on Horseback

by Will Grant4/11/20244/8/2024

In 2019 Will Grant embarked on a 142-day, 2,000-mile horseback journey from the Pony Express stables in St. Joseph, Mo., to trail’s end in Sacramento, Calif.

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During the War Years, Posters From the American Homefront Told You What to Do — And What Not to Do

by Tom Huntington4/9/20244/9/2024
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Would You Pay $2 Million For This Stamp?

by Gerry Frazier2/14/20241/19/2024
Stetson ‘Boss of the Plains’ hat

Stetson Invented the Cowboy Hat, Westerners Gave It Wings

by David Lauterborn1/26/202411/7/2023
Stereographic view of R.W. Sears at desk.

The 20th-Century Retail Mecca That Was Sears, Roebuck & Co.

by Melissa A. Winn1/16/20241/16/2024
A North Vietnamese poster from 1968 shows VC fighters “determined to beat the American enemy.” A shot-down U.S. pilot lies in the foreground while an American jet crashes in the distance.

During the Vietnam War, These Colorful Posters Aimed to Win Hearts and Minds

by Larry Porges1/3/20241/3/2024
Photo of Little Round Top, at Gettysburg National Military Park, Pa., offers a sweeping view. From this hill, on the left end of the Union line, Lt. Col. Joshua Chamberlain led the 20th Maine Volunteers in a bayonet counterattack against the 15th Alabama Infantry and other Confederate units on July 2, 1863.

The World’s Most Visitor-Friendly Battlefields

by David T. Zabecki12/22/202312/28/2023
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These Dr. Seuss Cartoons Were Not Meant for Children

by World War II Magazine12/5/202312/6/2023
Texas Ranger Jim Hawkins

The Guns That Won the West

by George Layman11/10/202310/19/2023
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Images from Washington Captured the Golden Age of Aviation in Glorious Black and White

by Tom Huntington11/8/202310/16/2023

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