Theodore Roosevelt or Teddy, was the 26th president of the United States. Roosevelt was […]
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‘Battle of the Beams’: Germany’s Invisible Secret Weapon That Could Have Devastated Britain
Physicist R.V. Jones helped foil the Luftwaffe’s sophisticated radio navigation system.
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What If Robert E. Lee Had Sent Troops to Vicksburg?
Why exactly was Robert E. Lee so opposed to sending help to Mississippi in 1863?
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‘No. 1 Gun’: An M60 Machine Gunner in Vietnam Tells His Story
A former expert with the M60 machine gun shares his experiences wielding the fearsome weapon in Vietnam.
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Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found Spray-Painted on Barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau
The vandalism was discovered on October 5 on the wooden barracks in Sector Blla of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site — the largest subcamp of the complex
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Should Pope be a Punchline?
For starters, there is scant evidence he said that “Headquarters in the Saddle” line.
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Last Gasp at Granville: The Daring German Attack on Allied-Occupied France
In 1945 a German raiding force from the Channel Islands launched a daring attack on a port in Allied-occupied France
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Who Kept Ulysses S. Grant Sober?
John Rawlins used his brains and blue language to keep his boss in check.
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‘The Black Prince and King Jean II of France’ Book Review
Peter Hoskins’ latest history of the Hundred Years’ War examines the lives of rival generals Black Prince Edward and Jean II
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Notes from the Underground Railroad: How Slaves Found Freedom
Black slaves recall their perilous journey to freedom using a network of hidden trails and safehouses laid out by freedmen and white abolitionists.