Once the highest-elevation U.S. Army post, Colorado’s Camp Hale provided ski troops with deep snow and challenging terrain.
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Daily Quiz for June 12, 2019
Historians call them the last and greatest of the Western outlaw gangs.
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Northerners Fought Civil War Not to Defeat Slavery, but the ‘Slave Power’
Yankees argued that the ‘Slave Power’ had duped and even terrorized regular people into supporting secession
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Former Pension Bureau a Stunning Tribute to Civil War Veterans
Maj. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs designed the former Pension Bureau building in Washington to be both functional and awe-inspiring
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How Troops in Vietnam Saw the First Moon Landing
Whether in POW camps or mess halls, the men and women serving in the Vietnam War certainly didn’t learn of Neil Armstrong’s historic step in their living rooms.
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The Origins of Restraint
The medieval period’s faltering and largely unsuccessful steps to constrain the worst excesses of war were an important beginning.
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Daily Quiz for June 11, 2019
During the Winter War, Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä earned this name.
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Book Review: The Best of 2006
As any buff knows, the term “World War II” is something of a misnomer. […]
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A Dubious Distinction at Kassel
Flying their B-24 Liberators in the flak-filled skies over Europe late in World War […]
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Reinhard Heydrich: A Devil With Many Faces
On June 22, 1941, the first day of the German invasion of Russia, the […]