A detailed look at U.S. leaders’ struggle to finance the Civil War.
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‘Devotion’ Tells an Understated Friendship Story Set in the Korean War
Its story centers not on the war itself, but on the unlikely friendship that develops between a swaggering Lt. Tom Hudner and the Navy’s first Black aviator, Ensign Jesse Brown.
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How An Artist Painted Nature To Reveal the Horrors of War
Paul Nash’s paintings reveal what soldiers—and the land itself—endured in two world wars.
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He Was the First to Fly Across America. But Crashed 8 Times Along the Way.
Was Cal Rodgers the unluckiest record-breaking pilot?
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They Assumed the Enemy in Vietnam Was Incapable of Intercepting Radio Communications. They Were Wrong
Senior U.S. commanders thought the NVA and Viet Cong were too “primitive” to make deadly use of radio intel. Careless communications cost American lives.
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The Canadian Surgeon Who Became A Hero In Communist China
A brush with death sent Norman Bethune on an unlikely path to fight fascism in China.
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New Study Looks at a Grim Mission: Bringing WWII’s Dead Back Home
More than 171,000 dead Americans were returned home after the fighting, but it’s “a largely unknown chapter of the war.”
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This Confederate Officer Couldn’t Go To War Without His One-Gallon Whiskey Jug
Shanks Evans was a rip-roaring, knock-kneed fighter—and his fondness for alcohol made him his own worst enemy.
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Kharkiv Is No Stranger To Invasion—The Nazis Fought Four Battles Over It
Ukraine’s second-largest city today was one of the most hotly-contested objectives on World War II’s Eastern Front.
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‘F3D/EF-10 Skyknight Units of the Korean and Vietnam Wars’ Review: An Aircraft of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Was this aircraft the “unsung hero” of the Korean and Vietnam Wars?