Bonus Marchers’ Camp Burns On July 28, 1932, shacks built in the shadow of […]
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Picture of the Day: July 29
Arial View of Iwo Jima A TBM ‘Avenger’ torpedo plane flies over Mount Suribachi […]
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Picture of the Day: July 26
Liberian Independence In 1847, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the Virginia-born son of free blacks, was […]
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Picture of the Day: July 27
World War I Navy Recruiting Poster An oil painting by artist James Montgomery Flagg […]
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Picture of the Day: July 25
First to Cross the English Channel by Plane French aviator Louis Blériot made the […]
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Ancient History: Walls of Constantinople
For almost 1,000 years that wall of Constantinople defended Western Christendom-only to be compromised by Crusaders and finally breached by Turkish cannons.
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Picture of the Day: March 6
The Siege of the Alamo Davy Crockett fires his rifle from a kneeling position […]
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Battle of Chalons: Attila the Hun Versus Flavius Aetius
Flavius Aetius’ confrontation with Attila the Hun in AD 451 is widely regarded as a turning point in history, but it may only have hastened the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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Gothic War: Byzantine Count Belisarius Retakes Rome
As Byzantine Emperor Justinian revived the Eastern Roman empire, he sent his greatest general west to retake Rome.
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Picture of the Day: March 4
President McKinley’s Second Inauguration On March 4, 1901, a crowd stands in front of […]