On July 5, 1851, a Mexican woman became the only woman ever hanged for […]
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American History Headlines- December 2007
Gettysburg Cyclorama Comes Back to Life Out of public view since 2005, Gettysburg’s famed […]
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Douglas Fairbanks’s Drama on the High Seas
Famed for his heroics on screen, a Hollywood idol topped himself at war as leader of a band of seaborne deception specialists
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Mach 3 Man Who Test Flew the SR-71 Blackbird
Lockheed’s chief test pilot for the SR-71 Blackbird overcame numerous inflight emergencies during his career and never failed to bring an airplane back to earth.
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What We Learned From…Braddock’s Defeat, 1755
Whatever his shortcomings, British Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock did not lack courage. In battle […]
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Daily Quiz for September 7, 2018
Elizebeth Smith Friedman and her husband, William Friedman, served the U.S. in this capacity during World Wars I and II.
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Daily Quiz for September 6, 2018
An over six foot long belt of beads signifying an agreement between America’s thirteen colonies and the six member (later five) nations of the Iroquois is named this.
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CWT Book Review: Military Necessity
Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy by Paul D. Escott, Greenwood Publishing Group, […]
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CWT Book Review: Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac
Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac by William Swinton No victorious military force […]
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CWT Book Review: Contested Borderland
Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia by Brian D. McKnight, […]