From 1921 to 1924 William Faulkner held this job in Oxford, MS.
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Surgery in the Front Lines
Starting in World War I, military hospitals moved closer and closer to bullets-flying combat, […]
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Retreat From Hsuchow, May 1938
Jack Belden, now forgotten, was once famous during and after World War II as […]
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Making Art of Atrocity
In the wake of World War I, American artist George Bellows “had to draw […]
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Hindman’s War: A Confederate long shot in Arkansas
To turn around a famous Lincoln phrase, the Mississippi in 1862 was a vexed […]
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Clausewitz at War
The Prussian military theoretician was combat tested in the Napoleonic Wars. Carl von Clausewitz’s […]
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The Man Behind the Rodman Gun
The Rodman gun, developed in the mid-19th century, was the technological apex of smoothbore, […]
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A Clumsy War, A Lasting Peace: The Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent, skillfully negotiated in 1814 by John Quincy Adams (center), ended […]
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This Terrible Truth: The Defense of Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), chronicler of the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945, correspondent for […]
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Plucking Out Jim Crow in the Nation’s Capital
In 1950, a Washington, DC, restaurant turns away an elderly woman because she is […]