Corruption was a central theme of the Viet Cong’s bid for power. But exactly how corrupt was South Vietnam?
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‘Our American Cousin’: The Play That Lured Lincoln to His Doom
It was the “Friends” of its day, but it took decades for this lighthearted play to emerge from the curse of the Lincoln assassination.
Posted inStories
The One-Man Caretaker to One of the Civil War’s Final Battle Sites
The Cumberland Church battlefield in Virginia saw one of Lee’s final engagements.
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Nazis Built an Escape-Proof Castle. Allied POWs Got Out More Than 30 Times.
Author Ben Macintyre tackles the almost mythic status of Colditz POWs in his latest work.
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The Time the US Actually Welcomed a Russian Blockade—During the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln and Russia’s Czar Alexander II formed an unusual,
but crucial, wartime alliance.
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual
Why Texas Rangers AND Chinese Tiger Hunters Loved the Savage Model 1899
The first of the hammerless lever-action rifles, the Savage became a perennial favorite.
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual
History of MiGs: The Fighter Planes That Protected—and Survived—the USSR
During the Cold War, these fighter planes were the mainstay of Soviet air defense. Here’s the history—and ignominious coda of the USSR’s premier fighter jets.
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King Charles III: The Life of the New King
The former prince of Wales is now the first 21st-century king of the United Kingdom.
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Watch Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation in Color and Black-and-White
Even Winston Churchill was against televising the queen’s coronation, but she insisted. Here’s what audiences saw in 1953.