“The initial reasons to go in after 9/11, were right and true,” Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath said. “They had attacked our country, and they needed to be ousted.”
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‘Stalin’s War’ Book Review
Sean McMeekin casts a revisionist’s eye on Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s wartime decisions and legacy
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Book Review: Echoes of Our War / Vietnam Veterans Reflect 50 Years Later
Retired Marine Col. Bob Fischer selected 10 veterans “who served honorably in a confusing war” to share their stories
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Taking Stock of General MacArthur’s Legacy in Norfolk, Virginia
Douglas MacArthur lived all over the world, but his family history brought him back to the Chesapeake.
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How Pioneering Entrepreneurs Helped 19th-Century America Keep Cool
Until the 19th century, ice fit for human consumption was scarce, hacked and sawn by hand, and available only locally in limited, highly prized quantities
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It Was the Handsomest Country Residence in Tennessee—in 1874 it Burned to the Ground
Memories, and two ancient trees, linger at Confederate General Leonidas Polk’s mansion, consumed in a postwar blaze.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee Statue—Nation’s Largest Remaining Confederate Tribute—To Be Removed
“The statue was installed in 1890, a generation after the Civil War, during the historical movement that sought to undo the results by other means”
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How a World War I Jazz-Playing Marine Gave Us the Best Weapon Name Ever
A strange instrument became the namesake for a devastating weapon
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Operation Desert Storm and the ‘JDAM Revolution’
During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the U.S. Air Force dropped hundreds of laser-guided and infrared-imaging precision guided munitions on Iraqi targets
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Book Review: Dreams of El Dorado / A History of the American West
H.W. Brands presents an overview of the American West from the Louisiana Purchase through the close of the frontier.