ANCIENT TRACKS Everyone has a bit of Britain he would like to keep a […]
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Battle of Gettysburg: Major Eugene Blackford and the Fifth Alabama Sharpshooters
As fighting swirled all around the little town of Gettysburg, Major Eugene Blackford and his sharpshooters infiltrated the usually quiet streets to snipe at Union soldiers often mere paces away. It was dangerous duty, but also a sort of reckless sport.
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A Japanese Pilot Crashed on a Hawaiian Island. The Bizarre Chain of Events That Followed May Have Influenced One of America’s Most Regrettable Acts.
Conflicted allegiances leading to a deadly confrontation on Niihau may have had far-reaching repercussions for Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Mexican War of Independence: Father Miguel Hidalgo’s Revolt
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla’s revolt against the Spanish Crown became a horrific bloodbath that set five remarkable men of diverse backgrounds on a tragic collision course.
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General Grant’s Council of One
Timothy O’Sullivan’s famous photographs notwithstanding, Ulysses S. Grant’s only councils of war were with himself.
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America’s Civil War: January 2000 From the Editor
Author George Washington Cable was one former Confederate who did not regret losing the […]
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America’s Civil War: July 2000 From the Editor
Abraham Lincoln’s only military experience was as a 23-year-old militia captain in the Black […]
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America’s Civil War: May 2000 From the Editor
A Welsh journalist’s unfiled story saved the career of the Civil War’s greatest general. […]
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America’s Civil War: March 2000 From the Editor
Ulysses S. Grant could thank Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana for his […]
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America’s Civil War: November 2000 From the Editor
The Committee on the Conduct of the War was as much a foe of […]