Archaeologists can’t swing a metal detector without getting a hit
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Diver Finds 900-Year-Old Sword Belonging to a Knight Crusader Off Israel’s Coast
The nearly four-foot blade, “which has been preserved in perfect condition, is a beautiful and rare find and evidently belonged to a Crusader knight”
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A Grave Legacy: Burial Sites of the Western & Famous
Even in death legendary Westerners were dogged by a sordid collection of grave robbers, relic hunters, politicians and lawyers
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Scenes from the South Pacific: Robert Greenhalgh for Yank Magazine
“I tried to reflect the life of a soldier as he was going about his work,” Robert Greenhalgh once said of his drawings for Yank in World War II
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Colin Powell, 84, Dies of COVID-19 Complications
The former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was 84 years old.
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Driven Out By Railroads, Steamboats Rolled Big Profits on the Colorado River
Facing being pushed out by booming railroad companies, steamboats banked on making the Colorado, a desert river, the Mississippi of the West
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How Guy Gabaldon Became The ‘Pied Piper of Saipan’
Guy Gabaldon’s efforts on both Saipan and Tinian led to the surrender of some 1,500 Japanese troops and civilians
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Colin Powell: The Vietnam War Years
Colin Powell’s military prowess showed early in his experiences in Vietnam and would shape the leadership abilities that would later catapult his career.
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‘Asian American Spies’ Book Review
Brian Masaru Hayashi pays homage to the Americans of Asian descent who served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II
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A Worse Place Than Hell: A Review of the Union Debacle at Fredericksburg
John Matteson eschews history on the grand scale for a view shaped by the experiences of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Pelham, Walt Whitman, Arthur Fuller, and Louisa May Alcott