While the more indirect, less tangible influence is harder to put a price tag on, the social value of the Colosseum is astronomical.
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‘Bonds of War’ Book Review: How War Profiteers Helped the Union Win
The Civil War pushed American finance into a new, more modern phase.
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What Happened to the B-25s of ‘Catch-22’?
There was a life after the movies for these supporting actors. Where are these iconic bombers now?
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Before CGI, This Director Needed to Build His Own B-25 Fleet
Mike Nichols wanted to film “Catch-22,” but he needed a lot of airworthy Mitchells first.
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Book Review: Hitler’s American Gamble / Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
A fantastic new crop of revisionist histories focused on World War II’s staggered beginnings […]
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INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Leonard / The Civil War General Known as ‘The Beast’
Ben Butler was a brilliant strategist — and a civil rights leader, says the author of a new biography.
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And Then There Were Three: One of the Last Living Navajo Code Talkers Dies at Age 98
Samuel Sandoval and other Navajo Nation members used their tribal language to forge a complex code Japan never cracked.
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Book Review: ‘The Great Stewardess Rebellion’
Treated as sex objects and eye candy, flight attendants had to fight to be treated as professionals in the airline industry. Nell McShane Wulfhart chronicles their fight.
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Book Review: Whole Earth / The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Not a few readers first encountered Stewart Brand in the opening scene of The […]
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Emmett Till’s Murder Horrified 1960s America — and Continues to Shock Today
Till’s savage murder became a turning point in the civil rights movement, as did the outcome of the killers’ trial. The reverberations of this act of racist cruelty are still strongly felt.