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Hicks Field, Parker’s Crossroads, Tenn.

Parker’s Crossroads: Where Nathan Bedford Forrest Made the Union Weep

by John Banks3/6/20233/6/2023

ww2-raf-reconnaissance-car

When the British Needed to Gather Intelligence, They Used This Armored Car

by Paraag Shukla3/3/20233/6/2023

Photo of Sikh soldiers of the British Indian army pose amid the charred ruins of the Saragarhi heliograph station.

When 21 Sikh Soldiers Fought the Odds Against 10,000 Pashtun Warriors

by Dana Benner3/3/20231/27/2023

Henry Woodson Strong

A Strong-willed Texan Scout Joined the Confederacy at 15. But That Was Just the Beginning.

by Wild West Staff3/3/20232/8/2023

Few Red Tails Remain: Tuskegee Airman Dies at 96

by Claire Barrett3/2/20233/2/2023

Photo of defused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode - leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats.

A Look at the Damage from the ‘Secret’ War in Laos

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/2/20236/28/2023

Immerse Yourself in the Chaos of Battle at Gettysburg’s New Museum

by Melissa A. Winn3/2/20233/2/2023

They Say He Burned Down the Reichstag. But Was He Drugged Into Confessing?

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/1/20233/2/2023

Photo of American servicemen, former prisoners of war, are cheering as their aircraft takes off from an airfield near Hanoi as part of Operation Homecoming.

How Operation Homecoming Was Sprung into Action to Repatriate American POWs

by J. Keith Saliba2/28/20232/28/2023

Photo of Rev. Ike during a pre-prayer service interview in Rev. Ike's office in New York. Reverend Ike, who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions nationwide, has died. He was 74.

Was Money This Schemer’s True God?

by Peter Carlson2/28/20232/17/2023