“If anyone should be standing at the elbow of George Washington in the United States Capitol Statuary Hall collection, it should be Marshall.”
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A Coastguardsman’s Journey to the Deadly Shores of Normandy
Seaman Second Class Jack Edward Rowe’s 1944 voyage to France unfolds with disarming candor in a diary he left behind.
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How a Roman-Era Rapunzel Became the Patron Saint of Artillery
Saint Barbara, beheaded by her own father, became the patron saint of artillery
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Fisticuffs and Fury, a Look at the Army-Navy Rivalry
Cancelled by President Grover Cleveland. Restored by then Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt — the Army-Navy football game is in its 130th year
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‘As He Lived For Others, So Did He Die’: Beloved Union General Israel Richardson Cut Down at Antietam
Confederate shell fire cut down revered Union General Israel Richardson at the Battle of Antietam
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Raid at Son Tay: U.S. Special Operations’ attempted rescue of POWS in 1970
The Son Tay raid became a blueprint for special operations forces, such as the 2003 rescue of Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch, captured during the Iraq War, and the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid
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The Auschwitz Memorial is Now Accessible Via Virtual Tours
“There is no way to understand postwar Europe and the world without an in-depth confrontation […]
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How Freddie Laker Took On the Big Airlines and Won
To the aviation world Sir Freddie Laker was truly a legend in his own time. A tycoon of working-class origins who built up his business empire from nothing, Laker makes the entrepreneurs on “Dragons’ Den” and “Shark Tank” seem like amateurs.
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Game of Kings: Was Hnefatafl the Vikings’ Best-Kept Strategic Secret?
Archaeology suggests the Vikings played this board game to practice “strategical and tactical warfare”
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‘They have our range…’: How a Pleasure Trip on the C&O Canal Turned Deadly
When former Union officer Elijah Fearing Hobart booked his cruise on the canal boat […]