The members of Khmer Rouge’s Communists Party of Cambodia referred to the party as this.
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Book Review: Wild Bill / The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
Best-selling author Tom Clavin turns his authoritative gaze on Wild Bill Hickock, presenting familiar material in new and entertaining ways.
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Book Review: All Because of a Mormon Cow / Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre, 1854–1855
The editors present all available literature and let readers decide who was to blame for the 1854 Indian-army encounter that got 30 soldiers killed.
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Book Review: The Mormon Handcart Migration
Candy Moulton traces the tragic path of five Mormon handcart companies that set out for Salt Lake City in 1856
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Book Review: Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight / Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918
Heidi Osselaer searches for the truth about a 1918 Arizona shootout—no, not in Tombstone—that left four men dead.
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The Doc Who Rode With Custer
Assigned to the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1867, Army surgeon Isaac Coates had adventures with George Custer and helped the colonel at his court-martial
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Cecile W. Morgan’s Memories on Canvas
The Alabama artist draws on vintage photos to paint cowboy Bill Pickett and other Westerners
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American West Historian Will Bagley Wins Big With Owen Wister Award
The overland trails expert has earned Western Writers of America’s 2019 award for lifetime contributions to the genre
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Interview: James Whitman / How Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis
American statutes barring interracial sex and marriage were model for anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws.
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Daily Quiz for May 23, 2019
The Duke of Wellington displayed an 11-foot tall statue of this man in his London home.