Once celebrated as a hero, the explorer has come under attack. Why are more towns and states celebrating a new holiday instead?
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Reframing the Narrative
In recent years there has been a growing push to give a more complete and accurate recounting of American history
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Researchers Hunt for Soldiers’ Graves at Montana’s Rosebud Battlefield
With much of the battlefield remaining largely unchanged over the next 145 years, a team of researchers conducted a survey last week trying to find those nine men
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‘Desperate Sunset’ Book Review
Mike Yeo relates Japan’s late-war decision to have kamikaze aviation units mount suicide attacks against U.S. shipping
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A Man, a Mission and the Greatest Beer Run Ever
Chickie Donohue hauled a burlap bag of beer from New York to his friends in Vietnam.
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Lessons Learned from Operation Chenghiz Khan
During Operation Chenghiz Khan in 1971, Pakistan’s air force repeated recent military history at their own peril
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Germany Agrees to Pay an Additional $767 Million to Holocaust Survivors
Germany has agreed to allot first-time pensions for victims of the Holocaust who survived the Siege of Leningrad
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How a Severely Wounded Medic Risked His Life to Save Others in Vietnam
Severely wounded, hero medic Lawrence Joel ignored enemy fire to reach the wounded and dead in Vietnam, for which he received the Medal of Honor
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The War Galley
Propelled primarily by rows of oarsmen, the galley ruled the oceans for more than four millennia before sailed warships supplanted it
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American Subs Were a Far More Lethal Force in the Pacific War Than Previously Known
New research shows that U.S. Navy submarines claimed a huge number of Japanese lives, along with Allied POWs and slave laborers transported by the Japanese.