He was the only World War Two war correspondent to win the Bronze Star and the Air Medal.
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Book Review: The Robber Baron Who Gave Us Silicon Valley
Leland Stanford bribed, stole, and murdered his way to fame and acclaim.
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That Time FDR Changed the Date of Thanksgiving — and Alienated Half the Country
The president was trying to placate business leaders, but his ‘Franksgiving’ gaffe sent the nation into a tizzy.
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Remembering Bloody, Bloody Tarawa
“Casualties many; percentage of dead not known; combat efficiency: We are winning.” Seventy-seven years […]
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Daily Quiz for November 20, 2019
Chuck Yeager named his P-51 Mustang fighter plane this.
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Washington Came This Close to Executing an Innocent Man
The American commander was pressured to hang a Redcoat officer in retaliation for a patriot’s murder
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75 Years After His Last Mission, WWII Bomber Pilot Recounts ‘Sheer Terror’ of Bombing Runs Over Nazi Germany
In 1943, John Luckadoo was just a wide-eyed 21-year-old lieutenant when he manned the […]
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Hard Truth About Disarmament: Diplomacy Means Diddly
Iran will build a bomb when it’s ready, despite treaty restrictions
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Rambling: Suburban Sprawl Is Destroying the Stones River Battlefield
An Afghan War veteran laments the disappearance of hallowed landscape
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Insight: A Historian Explains How Republicans Misjudged the Threat of Secession
David M. Potter’s scholarship explains how the North saw Southern rhetoric as ‘crying wolf’