When small Balkan nations took on Ottoman Turkey, they lit the fuze of world […]
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Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban: Father of the Fortress
Vauban, France’s master engineer of the 17th Century, designed nearly 100 fortress for Louis […]
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What We Learned: From Canada, 1775
Battles are often lost in the conception of them, and Continental Army Colonel Benedict […]
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Valor: Finding the Lost Battalion
Harold Goettler Erwin Bleckley U.S. Army Medal of Honor Argonne, France October 5, 1918 […]
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From the Crossroads: A Timely Hunch
On July 1, 1863, Brig. Gen. John Buford’s cavalry division at Gettysburg desperately holds […]
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The Civil Warrior
Through his pioneering histories of the Civil War, it is said, Bruce Catton “made us hear the sounds of battle and cherish peace.”
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A U-Boat’s U-Turn
In 1916 a German “merchant” submarine suddenly popped up in Baltimore. It went on […]
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At the Leading Edge of Counterinsurgency
Mobile Advisory Teams were an unconventional approach to an unconventional war
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Insight: Paid for in Blood
Students are inspired to think deeply about history when they visit historic ground Civil […]