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Daily Quiz for July 23, 2017

by HistoryNet Staff7/23/20176/8/2017

Gavrilo Princip who started World War I by killing the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, received this sentence for his crime.

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Daily Quiz for July 22, 2017

by HistoryNet Staff7/22/20176/8/2017

Published in 1969, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s Pulitzer Prize winning-book, Present at the Creation, is about this.

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Video: The 16th Connecticut at Antietam

by Melissa Winn7/21/20177/24/2017

Civil War Times Magazine Editor Dana Shoaf discusses the experience of the 16th Connecticut during […]

Posted inInterview

Interview: Glen Hayes / The Camp Letterman Campaign

by Sarah Richardson7/21/20176/10/2024

Glen Hayes, of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, has championed the preservation of Camp […]

Posted inStories

The Man Who Saved Korea

by Thomas Fleming7/21/201712/18/2023

Matthew B. Ridgway, who brought a beaten Eighth Army back from disaster in 1951, was a thinking—and fighting—man’s soldier.

Posted inInterview, Review

FILM RECON Interview: Fionn Whitehead on “Dunkirk”

by Paraag Shukla7/21/20177/21/2017

Fionn Whitehead, 19, acted on stage and in a miniseries before Christopher Nolan selected him for the […]

Posted inInterview, Review

FILM RECON Interview: Jack Lowden on “Dunkirk”

by Paraag Shukla7/21/20177/24/2017

Jack Lowden, 27, is a successful and award-winning actor. Prior to being cast as a Royal […]

Posted inInterview, Review

FILM RECON Interview: Mark Rylance on “Dunkirk”

by Paraag Shukla7/21/20177/21/2017

Mark Rylance, 57, is a well-respected actor, theatre director, and playwright. Known for acclaimed […]

Posted inStories

Great Scot at Waterloo

by John Koster7/21/20172/12/2019

George Drummond Graeme was the last man standing at La Haye Sainte farmhouse during […]

Posted inUncategorized

Daily Quiz for July 21, 2017

by HistoryNet Staff7/21/20176/8/2017

Although only eleven states formed the Confederate States of America, there were this many stars in their flag, the Stars and Bars.

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