The Westland Lysander Mark III had sat out in a farmer’s field in rural […]
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Book Review: Surviving Genocide / Native Nations and the United States From the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Jeffrey Ostlers relates the clashes and pores over statistics to determine whether or not the Indian wars amounted to genocide.
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Remembering Iwo Jima on the Battle’s 77th Anniversary
Across black volcanic sand, U.S. Marines crawled, ran, and slipped towards the entrenched Japanese […]
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Why the Story of the U.S. Navy’s First Black Aviator Had to Be Told by Hollywood
From a young age, Jesse Leroy Brown dreamed of flying, and he wasn’t going to let history get in the way.
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Daily Quiz for February 7, 2020
The first successful parachute jump from a moving airplane took place in this year.
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For Airman, Famed ‘Burst of Joy’ Photograph Rings Hollow
The story behind the famous photo of a family’s reunion after a father, a POW, returns from Vietnam is significantly less joyous than the imagery implies.
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A Belgian Grandmother is the Protagonist of this World War II Video Game
Brukel’s plot hinges on memories, not manpower.
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A Family Fortune Made of Whole Cloth
The Cone family exemplified Jewish immigration in the South by encouraging industrial and cultural progress
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Daily Quiz for February 6, 2020
This was the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon.
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Daily Quiz for February 5, 2020
From 1964 to 1972 Bob Hope visited Vietnam during this holiday season.