On Sunday May 31, Irene Triplett, the last person receiving a pension from the U.S. Civil War, died at the age of 90 following complications from surgery.
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The Forgotten Story of Midway’s Marine Defenders
Outnumbered and outgunned, the Marine pilots of VMF-221 paid a heavy price for their heroic efforts to stem the Japanese onslaught on Midway Atoll.
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The Conventional, and Unconventional, U.S. Constitution
Oddities from a private 1787 meeting that created the United States of America we’ve come to know
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Why Did German Soldiers Wear Spiked Helmets?
Did the spike on the Pickelhaube serve a real purpose?
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Chamberlain and Wise: Enemies to the End
The Maine man’s attempts at reconciliation were met with the Virginian’s everlasting bitterness
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Blundering Underlings Betrayed Burnside at Fredericksburg
Plenty of blame to go around for the defeat that cost the Union army 13,000 casualties
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Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency
Military historian Mark Grimsley makes the startling assertion that the American civil rights movement was an insurgency.
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The Chicago Race Riot of 1919: How the Death of Eugene Williams Shook America
Racial discrimination, police brutality, and a society slow, and in some cases, unwilling to […]
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An American Pilot’s Improbable Adventure in Occupied France
Joel McPherson’s life changed the day he jumped out of his crippled P-47 and parachuted into a foreign land.