An engineer reveals how legendary Douglas designer Ed Heinemann’s attention to small details paid off big with the A-4 Skyhawk
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Daily Quiz for March 3, 2017
This famous American was chosen by President Thomas Jefferson to be his private secretary.
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Film Review: American Experience / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
American Experience: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid 60 minutes, PBS, $24.99. The latest […]
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Miniseries Review: Klondike
Klondike, Discovery Channel, three-part series, six hours, TV-14, premiered in January 2014. Discovery Channel’s […]
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Book Review: Shooting Arrows & Slinging Mud
Shooting Arrows & Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press and the Little Bighorn By James […]
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Book Review: Columns of Vengeance
Columns of Vengeance: Soldiers, Sioux and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864 By Paul N. Beck, […]
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The Guns Custer Left Behind Would Have Been a Burden
The ‘Boy General’ declined to take Gatlings to the Little Bighorn. Historical tragedies invariably […]
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Denver Public Library’s Western History Collection Is a Trove of Historic Papers
Photographs and artistic masterworks provide a visual treasure. The late Argentine author and poet […]
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Ghost Town: Calico, California
Drivers will find no Walmarts, malls or suburban enclaves along I-15 between Barstow, California, […]
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March of the Montana Column
As part of its Indian wars campaign of 1876 the U.S. Army tasked Colonel […]