What was a bitter George Pickett thinking when he ordered the hanging of Union prisoners at Kinston, N.C., in 1864?
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Scratchboard Artist Kody Bundy
Bundy connects with horses and Western wildlife in her chosen medium
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‘Ladies from Hell’: Bagpipers Led the Charge During WWI
Over the top and amid the carnage and confusion of No Man’s Land stepped Highland regimental bagpipers.
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‘Greater Love Hath No Man:’ Marines in Congress Request Camp Reasoner Sign Be Sent from Vietnam to the US
On a hill near Da Nang, Vietnam, sat Camp Reasoner ― home of the […]
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Interview: Abigail Cooper / Freed People’s Faith
Digging through official war records and narratives of former slaves recorded during the Works […]
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Painter at War: Winslow Homer’s Civil War Art
In 1861, Harper’s Weekly sent future master painter Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. View our online gallery of some of his wartime artwork
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The Mann Act: How a Law Meant to Help Women was Misused
An act meant to protect women wound up being a cudgel against common adulterers and men on the FBI’s blacklist
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Book Review: The Quaker and the Gamecock / Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War for the Soul of the South
Ungovernable guerrilla Thomas Sumter helped his straitlaced commander win the American Revolution in the South
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How the Colonists Beat Britain’s Best Generals
How an ‘ill-armed peasantry’ beat the daylights out of Clinton, Cornwallis, and a raft of professional soldiers
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Lord of the Distances Francesco de Pinedo
On November 7, 1925, a single-engine flying boat touched down on Rome’s historic Tiber River to tumultuous acclaim. At the controls were pilot Francesco de Pinedo and mechanic/copilot Ernesto Campanelli.