In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, many of the islands’ young women joined the Women’s Air Raid Defense to help prevent another disaster.
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Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole
The Fokker Trimotor Josephine Ford survived mishaps and beat fierce competition to be the first aircraft to fly over the top of the world, carrying Richard E. Byrd into history.
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General George C. Kenney: Pioneer of Aerial Warfare Strategy and Tactics in World War II’s Pacific Theater
General George C. Kenney pioneered aerial warfare strategy and tactics in the Pacific theater.
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Hearts without Homes: Coping with PTSD
Not all combat casualties appear on the battlefield, nor are all battle scars visible. One woman reveals how she found out the hard way about post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Dr. Ira Baldwin: Biological Weapons Pioneer
A pioneer in America’s biological weapons program during World War II, the unassuming Dr. Ira Baldwin was critical to the development of methods that made large-scale, safe production of the deadly toxins possible.
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Slave Mutiny on the Amistad
An 1839 mutiny aboard the Spanish ship, Amistad, in Cuban waters raised basic questions about freedom and slavery in the United States.
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Battle of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant thought his formidable Army of the Tennessee could take Vicksburg from a ‘beaten’ foe by direct assault. He was wrong, thanks to near-impregnable fortifications, renewed Southern spirit, and surprisingly suspect Northern generalship.
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America’s Civil War: Missouri and Kansas
For half a decade before the Civil War, residents of the neighboring states of Missouri and Kansas waged their own civil war. It was a conflict whose scars were a long time in healing.
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How a Desperate, Bloody Bayonet Charge at Corinth Saved the West From the Confederacy
With the strategic railroad town of Corinth — and the entire West — at stake, Union soldiers had one last, extreme measure move to make before all was lost.
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Oklahoma Panhandle: Badmen in No Man’s Land
Until the last decade of the 19th Century, the long, narrow strip that would become known as the Oklahoma Panhandle had no government and plenty of men who didn’t mind at all.