The Post Office called on Army Air Service pilots to carry the first airmail. Despite numerous hardships, the first flying postmen usually made their appointed rounds.
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Daily Quiz for March 17, 2017
According to an investigation by the Toronto Sunday World published in 1921, Rev. John Smithurst of Ontario shared a romance with this famous woman who chose never to marry.
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Chivalry Dies in Atlanta
On September 4, 1864, two days after he took the city, Maj. Gen. William […]
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Book Review: I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over
I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over: First Person Accounts of Civil War […]
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Book Review: Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln By Jonathan White Louisiana […]
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Book Reviews: Images of America
Images of America: Ford’s Theatre By Brian Anderson, Arcadia Publishing 2014, $21.99 Ford’s Theatre […]
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Book Reviews: Living Hell and Learning From the Wounded
Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War By Michael C.C. Adams, Johns […]
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Book Review: With Malice Toward Some
With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era By William […]
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Something to Write Tomes About
The war’s brutality changed American literature for good. What is the best American Civil […]
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Slugfest at Prairie Grove
Union troops divided between Arkansas and Missouri were easy targets—what could possibly go wrong? […]