Personality clash between fiery Rebel commanders comes to a head during the trek to Gettysburg.
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The James: A Florida Museum Looks West
The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art brings the Old and New West to St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Book review: US Air Cavalry Trooper Versus North Vietnamese Soldier
Military historian Chris McNab compares the men, equipment, strategy and tactics of soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army and the U.S. Air Cavalry.
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‘Das Boot’ Provides an Unvarnished Look at the Battle of the Atlantic
Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 film conjures something that every veteran knows about military service: It sucks.
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Crossing the ‘Rubicon’ into the North
A “High Private” relays his experiences on the march from Manassas, Va., to Sharpsburg, Md.
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Jesse James: Facts About the Wild West Outlaw and his Gang
He was a Confederate soldier who became one of the most notorious outlaws of the Wild West. How did Jesse James’s name become synonymous with “renegade”?
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Breakthrough at Saint-Lô: The Battle of Normandy’s Hedgerows
It took tens of thousands of lives and weeks of fighting through the bedeviling Norman hedgerows to capture what remained of the ‘Capital of Ruins’
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Thaddeus Stevens: The Evolution of the Egalitarian
The congressman did not start out a revolutionary; he became one
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How the Plane Crash Scene in ‘1917’ Set Me on the Trail of My Grandfather
A dramatic scene in 1917, the film directed by Sam Mendes, set the author on the trail of his grandfather in World War I
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Uncloaking the Jeff Davis Myth
The defeated Confederate president’s dramatic capture—in fact and fiction