A South Vietnamese soldier recounts his experiences facing his enemies during peace negotiations.
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Who Knew? The Art Deco Building in Gettysburg that Housed German POWs During WWII
What’s this striking art deco building doing in the middle of the nation’s most important Civil War battlefield?
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‘From Presidio to the Pecos River’ Book Review
Orville Shelburne describes the mid-19th century efforts of surveyors to delineate the southern border of the United States
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Book Review: The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison / America’s First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent
Elizabeth Atwood profiles the Baltimore socialite who brought connections, language skills and subterfuge to bear as America’s first female spy
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Can One Trace the Phrase ‘Whole Nine Yards’ to WWII? Kind of…
The origins of the oft-used phrase have stumped internet sleuths and etymologists alike for decades
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Epitaph for a Hero: The Search for a WWII MIA Pilot
Nearly 80 years after their C-47 crashed into a mountain in China, the remains of a transport pilot and his fellow crewmen have yet to be recovered.
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Death From Above: How a U.S. Navy Force Battled a Kamikaze Onslaught
Captured by photographer Herman Schnipper, the USS Astoria endured the three-hour frenzy during the bloody fight for Okinawa
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John Bachelder: How the Visionary Helped Preserve Gettysburg’s History
John Bachelder worked tirelessly to commemorate the July 1863 battle
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Samurai Invasion: Japan’s 1609 Conquest of Ryukyu
An elite corps of Japan’s samurai warriors launched an assault on the island realm of Ryukyu in 1609
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Ernest Peixotto: The Enlisted WWI Artist on the Western Front
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Ernest Peixotto was eager to lend his hand to the effort.