On the eve of America’s entry into World War I, saboteurs plotted—and carried out—attacks on the U.S. home front
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Book Review: With Napoléon’s Guard in Russia / The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812
Jonathan North has translated and edited this firsthand French account of the Invasion of Russia during the Napoleonic wars.
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Book Review: Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron, by Ronald D. Utt
Ronald Utt has written a very readable account of the War of 1812, centered primarily on U.S. naval actions.
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Book Review: Embers of War, by Frederik Logevall
Frederik Logevall examines the critical period of regional and world tensions that flared up into America’s Vietnam War.
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Book Review: Stalin’s General, by Geoffrey Roberts
Geoffrey Roberts has written a well-researched, candid biography of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, an impressive if only intermittently sympathetic commander.
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Daily Quiz for February 27, 2013
Before the Confederate States of America established Richmond, Virginia, as their capital, this city served as temporary capital.
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Why are bagpipes played at funerals?
Why are Scottish bagpipes played at funerals for policemen and firefighters? Elsa ? ? […]
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Daily Quiz for February 26, 2013
John Blair, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1789 to 1796, was also a signer of this historic document.
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Interview: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen / Hanoi’s Secrets
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, author of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, gives insight into the war’s final chapter, in this interview with Vietnam magazine about her life and her work.
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Daily Quiz for February 25, 2013
This event closed out the Napoleonic Wars and gave Europe a century of peace between its major powers.