Franklin Roosevelt had warned the Japanese after they occupied French Indochina, that any attack […]
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Daily Quiz for May 14, 2012
By joint resolution of Congress, the American flag has flown continuously over this person’s birthplace since May 30, 1949.
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Daily Quiz for May 13, 2012
This classic song was written by sisters Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill.
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Daily Quiz for May 12, 2012
The French Foreign Legion was established in 1831 to fight in the overseas struggle in this country.
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Daily Quiz for May 11, 2012
He was the first commander-in-chief of England’s New Model Army.
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Requiem for a Vietnam War Reporter – George Esper, 1932-2012
Esper doggedly covered the war from 1965 to its end, as North Vietnamese soldiers shuttered his Saigon AP bureau
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Honor bound
Just how far would a soldier go to avoid being shamed on the battlefield?
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Book Review: A Civil War Bundle
The Global Lincoln by Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton, eds. Oxford University Press 2011, $29.95 […]
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The Civil War’s 21st-century hero
Brian Lamb’s C-SPAN has brought great historians and great history to millions of Americans.