When France declined to join the United States and Great Britain in the Iraq […]
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What We Learned: from Fredericksburg
Most are familiar with the brutal December 13, 1862, Battle of Fredericksburg. Less well […]
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Interview: Timothy Naftali / The Soviet View of the Cold War
Some of the Cold War’s hottest crises erupted during Nikita Khrushchev’s years of power […]
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John Wilkes Booth: An Oily Character
Before plotting murder, the actor tried his hand at wildcatting
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Book Review: Frederick Douglass, by David W. Blight
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight, Simon & Schuster, 2018; $37.50
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New Exhibit at Holocaust Museum Examines American Response to Nazism in WWII
Could the United States have stopped the Holocaust? The US Holocaust Museum attempts to answer this with its latest exhibition.
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Daily Quiz for November 1, 2018
During the American Revolution, Dan Morgan and his men would signal to each other using this method
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‘Eyeball to Eyeball With the Enemy’
A Bavarian general records the unraveling of the grand German war plan in 1914 into a grueling conflict fought largely from the trenches
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Daily Quiz for October 31, 2018
He was the longest serving Commanding General of the United States Army.
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Trailside: Crossroads Town Harrisonburg, Va.
Both Union and Confederate soldiers brought suffering to this Shenandoah valley hamlet