Have you ever tried to drop it low and then just…dropped? If you’re looking […]
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Captain Truman: A Future President in World War I
How the four-eyed, failed Missouri farmer found his legs as an American officer on the Western Front in 1918
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Drawing Fire: Famed Cartoonist Bill Mauldin Turns 100
“Bill Mauldin’s wild fifty-year career defied F. Scott Fitzgerald’s oft-quoted remark about there being […]
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture to Reopen This Week
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will reopen its doors to […]
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Benny and the Bets
A small-town con artist and criminal becomes one of the West’s richest and most revered characters.
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The “Khe Sanh Two-Step”: Pay Call Under Fire
An unusual situation unfolded in Khe Sanh’s Red Sector when a USMC commanding officer was ordered to pay his troops while under enemy fire in 1968
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Graphic Novel Series Highlights First and Only Woman to Ever Receive the Medal of Honor
The newest issue of “Medal of Honor,” a graphic series produced by the Association of the U.S. Army, spotlights the Civil War heroics of Mary Walker, the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree and the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor.
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Fort and Fortitude: Pushing the Confederate Army to the Breaking Point
Known in official reports as Redoubt H, it was a key part of the Union’s plan to push the Confederate army to the breaking point.
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Antietam’s Cornfield Maelstrom
Antietam’s opening fight turned a field of crops into a scene of slaughter
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Fort Ticonderoga: Then and Now
A brief history of one of the most fortified sites in North America, the scene of several 18th century military clashes