Chris Enss relates the contribution of Western states toward American women’s right to vote.
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Book Review: Wellington’s Favourite Engineer
In Mark Thompson’s re-evaluation John Burgoyne emerges as an important architect of Britain’s victory over Napoléonic France
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‘Stumbling Stones’: How a German Artist is Memorializing Holocaust Victims One Brick at a Time
The “stumbling stones” now constitute the world’s largest decentralised memorial
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Fearless Radicals Turned the Quakers From Advocates of Slavery to Fervent Abolitionists
It took a century and a half and the tireless work of dissenting Friends to create the first White-dominated antislavery movement
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The Etymology of ‘f*ck’ and the War that Popularized It
“If I hear another f*cking G.I. say ‘f*cking’ once more I’ll cut my f*cking throat.”
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Meet Huie Lamb, One of the First Fighter Pilots to Down a Me 262 Jetfighter
The retired lieutenant colonel recalls his days spent at England’s Duxford Air Force Base—and in the sky.
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The Evolution of Gettysburg
Five questions with Christopher Gwinn, Gettysburg’s Chief of Interpretation and Education
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Citizen Soldiers of the Civil War
Three Volunteers from the same region of Pennsylvania experienced the war in very different ways
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A Definitive Ranking of the US Military’s Worst Animal Projects
The military has had a slew of failed experiments involving animals
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Elizabeth Keckly: The Black Woman Who Became a Part of the Lincoln Family
Mary Todd Lincoln’s closest confidante was a seamstress born in slavery.