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Era Archives:Modern Era

Book Review: The Katyn Massacre, 1940

by HistoryNet Staff12/20/20214/26/2024

Were Black People ‘Scarce’ in the West? Hardly—As These Books Show

by Greg Lalire12/20/20214/30/2024

See Images of Switzerland’s Military From 1386 to Modern Times

by Jon Guttman12/17/20211/27/2022
A biplane assembled from a kit and printed with an advertisement using a technique Orville Wright devised. (Photos by Dave Pecota)

Planophores and Flying Clowns: The Toys That Made Orville Wright a Household Name

by Michael Ray O’Brien12/17/20218/25/2023

Kars Fortress Stands As a Monument to a Turbulent Past

by Richard F. Selcer12/16/202112/15/2021
George Patton 1944

Patton and the Battle of the Bulge: ‘As soon as you’re through with me, I can attack the day after tomorrow morning’

by Stanley Weintraub12/16/20213/31/2024

America’s Weirdest Confederate Statue Has Been Removed from Nashville

by Claire Barrett12/13/20213/2/2024

‘Red Star Versus Rising Sun’ Book Review

by HistoryNet Staff12/13/20211/3/2022

Did Winston Churchill’s American Party Guests Not Know Where Pearl Harbor Was?

by World War II Magazine12/10/20214/29/2024
Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Baker v. Carr (from left) Hobart Atkins, Harris Gilbert, Z.T. Osborn Jr., Warren Chandler, and C.R. McClain in May 1962. The case, brought by Millington, Tenn., Mayor Charles W. Baker and other organizations against Tennessee Secretary of State Joe C. Carr, had profound implications for state legislature apportionment.

The Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision So Profound That One Justice Had a Nervous Breakdown

by Daniel B. Moskowitz12/10/202112/8/2021

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