Long after the end of the Civil War, Henry S. Tafft tried to enlighten […]
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One of McClellan’s Bodyguards
NAME: Samuel K. Wilson DATES: 1841-1865 ALLEGIANCE: Union HIGHEST RANK: Private UNIT: Sturgis Rifles […]
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Book Review: Big Week
James Holland recounts Operation Argument, the February 1944 bombing campaign over Germany that also knocked the Luftwaffe out of World War II
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McClellan Gets the Hook
Snow was falling as a railroad engine from Washington, D.C., clanged to a stop […]
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Voyager’s Nonstop Around-the-World Adventure
On a flight fraught with peril, two pilots circumnavigated the globe in a spindly twin-boom airplane with only the fuel they carried on takeoff.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Nautical Beginnings of America’s War on Drugs
American agents battled opium smugglers cramming contraband into steamers headed for San Francisco Bay
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Daily Quiz for October 7, 2019
This was the only part of the British Isles occupied by the Germans during World War Two.
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Daily Quiz for October 6, 2019
During World War One German Colonel Fritz von Lossberg earned this nickname
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Daily Quiz for October 5, 2019
The LMAs were organized by wealthy white women, with the mission to bury the bodies of Confederate soldiers and put up monuments in their honor.
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The World War II History Beneath Our Feet
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