Facts about the famed Black cavalry regiment known as Buffalo Soldiers
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Buffalo Soldiers: Sorting Fact from Fiction
The U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) had proved their worth during the Civil War, and emancipation had made available several hundred thousand potential recruits.
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Marine Veterans Recount Daring Raid on Makin Atoll
The perilous August 1942 raid on Makin Atoll was primarily to divert Japanese attention away from the main landings at Guadalcanal, but things went badly from the start. Three veterans of the Marine Corps 2nd Raider Battalion share their experiences.
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President William McKinley: Assassinated by an Anarchist
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz came to Buffalo, New York, with a mission. He believed that government was evil, and he planned to stamp out that evil, beginning at the top.
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America’s Civil War: March 2001 From the Editor
Yale’s Theodore Winthrop once rivaled Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., as the Ivy League’s most […]
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America’s Civil War: May 2001 From the Editor
For one brief moment, President Andrew Johnson was more popular with Radical Republicans than […]
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America’s Civil War: January 2001 From the Editor
The newly liberated slaves on South Carolina’s Sea Islands faced an ironic challenge to […]
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Civil War Times: March 2001 Editorial
NO WHITE SHOES My wife is quick to recognize the telltale signs. Whenever I […]
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Patton Races to Messina
General George S. Patton was a flamboyant commander who was not content to […]
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Glenn Miller
Half a century after his mysterious wartime disappearance, the big-band leader and composer who gave America "Moonlight Serenade," "String of Pearls," and "In the Mood" endures as the musical symbol of an entire generation.