A Black activist’s daughter became an It Girl on the other side of segregation.
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Bill Veeck, the P. T. Barnum of Baseball
Gleeful self-promoter pulled off more stunts than he could shake his wooden leg at.
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The Maginot Mentality
The wavering French High Command, not any technological failings, spelled the doom of the vaunted Gallic fortifications
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Daily Quiz for May 3, 2019
This famed children’s book author wrote about his service in World War Two in the 1986 book, Going Solo
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Daily Quiz for May 2, 2019
In 1870 Washington College in Lexington Virginia changed its name to this.
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Battle of Honey Springs Decided Control of Indian Territory
Black and Native American soldiers outnumbered whites in overlooked July 1863 clash in what is now Oklahoma.
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Mystery Ship: Can You Identify This Research Plane?
Can you identify this research airplane? Click here to reveal the answer.
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Al Williams: Gulfhawk Impresario
Despite Al Williams’ impressive list of aviation accomplishments, the racing, test and aerobatic pilot’s […]
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Daily Quiz for May 1, 2019
Before going to war, Civil War Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain taught this subject in college.
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Simply Criminal: How Pickett’s Mill Flank Attack Foundered
The second bloodiest defeat in the 1864 Atlanta campaign devolved into a full frontal catastrophe