Designed as a carrier-based torpedo bomber, the Fieseler Fi-167 ended up hunting Yugoslav Partisans when its ship never materialized.
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Daily Quiz for January 22, 2020
Jim Thrope won this many gold medals at the Stockholm 1912 Olympics.
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This Week in History – Michigan Becomes 26th State
On January 26, 1837, Michigan officially becomes the 26th state. After a long territorial […]
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Memories of Childhood in an American Internment Camp
An 84-year-old man looks back at life inside Minidoka War Relocation Center.
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The 10th Mountain Division’s Deadly Uphill Battle in Italy
In 1945, the newly fielded U.S. 10th Mountain Division battled the enemy and the elements in Italy’s Northern Apennines.
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The Artist Who Dared to Take On the Nazis From Their Earliest Days
Grosz and Hitler were equally traumatized by Germany’s defeat—but they coped in wildly divergent ways.
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Audiobook Review – The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O’Toole compellingly explains how a moralizing outlook drove Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, from WWI to handling domestic politics.
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Should the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz? PBS Show Engages in Counterfactual History
“That’s the problem with counterfactuals, history only happened one way.”
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Explore Life Along the Levee
New Orlean, the Confederacy’s largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862
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Red Dawn in Romanovka, Russia
Early one morning in 1919 Bolsheviks ambushed the camp of an American expeditionary force outside Romanovka, Russia. But why were the doughboys even there?