Director Jeymes Samuel presents a playful, all-black ensemble Western tainted by cartoonish violence.
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‘The Guns of John Moses Browning’ Book Review
Nathan Gorenstein relates the remarkable, history-altering career of gunsmith John Moses Browning
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John Muir’s Nearly Fatal Summit of Mount Shasta
Caught in a Mount Shasta blizzard, the Scottish-born mountaineer and a companion resorted to extraordinary measures
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Holocaust ‘Selfies’ Are Never Ever Okay… Or Are They?
“Don’t take selfies where genocide was perpetrated” feels like a rule no one should have to state out loud. But on social media and in the press the issue is more widespread than you’d think, and perhaps less cut and dried
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Karl Wolff: Peacemaker, Mass Murderer, or Both?
The SS general was keen to end the war in Europe. But did he ever truly understand and acknowledge his complicity in the Third Reich?
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Building the Lockheed P-80A Shooting Star
In 2013 Hobby Boss released a Lockheed F-80A Shooting Star, the first in a […]
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Meet the Big River Bushwhacker—the Dashing, Dangerous, Illiterate Outlaw Bent on Revenge
“Doubly wronged” early in the war, bushwhacker Sam Hildebrand spent his remaining days bent on revenge
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To Catch a Shadow: The Great 1925 Solar Eclipse Aerial Expedition
In 1925 scientists sought to use airplanes and an airship as aerial platforms to observe and photograph a total eclipse of the sun
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What Happened at the First Battle Between Grant and Lee?
The stakes could scarcely have been higher: a Union defeat might well lead to an armistice and defeat for Abraham Lincoln in the fall presidential elections
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How South Vietnamese Marines Impressed U.S. Marines at Quang Tri
Luom’s deed became fixed in Ripley’s memory as the “bravest single act of heroism I’ve ever heard of, witnessed or experienced”