Photographer Lee Miller was a 20th century icon on both sides of the camera.
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John R. Brinkley Got Rich on Glandular Gullibility
Quack duped dozens of men into having billy goat testes implantations
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Learning from the Best: Escape Artists of World War I
In 1917 the most troublesome, breakout-prone Allied POWs were sent to a land-locked prison […]
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Daily Quiz for September 19, 2018
A former slave, this man said, “One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”
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Hidden Heroes: Spy Games
Two slaves in the service of Jefferson Davis himself—William A. Jackson and Mary Elizabeth Bowser—provided vital information to the Union and lived to tell about it.
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World War I’s Battle of the Big Woods
How an army of axmen helped the Allies win the air war.
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Media Digest | General Loved by His Troops, But Not His Bosses
Jim Willbanks’ superbly written, extensively researched book on Lt. Gen. James F. “Holly” Hollingsworth—known […]
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Seven of History’s Most Notorious Wartime Propagandists
Here are the stories of seven spinmeisters who earned notoriety by altering reality and twisting the facts.
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Gone Fishing: Troops on both sides used improvised tackle to catch fish and supplement their army rations
Soldiers during the war would fish to supplement sometimes meager and unappetizing rations, and it was a common activity among troops in both armies.
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Daily Quiz for September 18, 2018
South Carolina currently nicknamed the Palmetto State, used this nickname from 1930-1935.