This town held the first town hall meeting in America.
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Elco PT Boat: 80 Feet of Wood and Weaponry
Of the nearly 400 fast, light and heavily armed patrol boats Elco made for the U.S. Navy during World War II, a few achieved notoriety and one survives today as a museum ship.
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Studebaker Wagon: The Studie That Served on the Front Lines
By 1867 the Studebaker brothers had provided the U.S. Army with 6,000 vehicles, including supply wagons, gun caissons and ambulances.
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The Making of General Winfield Scott
From the very beginning of his military life Scott was, in the words of one historian, ‘too prickly to love, too talented to ignore.’
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Book Review: Invisible Armies, by Max Boot
Invisible Armies, by author-historian Max Boot, is an authoritative and superbly written examination of the evolution of guerrilla warfare and its close cousin, terrorism.
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Book Review: The Zimmermann Telegram, by Thomas Boghardt
In his new book historian Thomas Boghardt examines just what impact the Zimmerman Telegram had on America’s decision to formally enter into World War I.
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Book Review: Napalm, by Robert M. Neer
In Napalm: An American History, author Robert Neer describes how this World War II invention came to be regarded as archetype of inhumane weapons.
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Interview: Geoffrey Parker / Author-Historian
In his big new book, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the […]
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Letter From Military History – July 2013
Military history is not just a chronicle of organized violence; it is also a history of the development of human organizations and the effects of ideas on human behavior.
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Daily Quiz for May 1, 2013
Beginning in 1661, half of this French monarch’s 54-year reign was filled with war.