Son of the South Bob Scott was a rebel with a cause: helping the United States defeat the Japanese.
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Exercise Tiger, More Deadly than Utah Beach?
Little more than five weeks before the Allied invasion of Normandy—the largest amphibious assault […]
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Daily Quiz for August 24, 2018
Kamikaze suicide planes made their first appearance at this World War II battle.
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Book Review: Cry Havoc! / The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford, Viking […]
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CWT Book Review: Within the Plantation Household
Within the Plantation Household by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Those whose understanding of slavery comes largely […]
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CWT Book Review: Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862
Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 by O. Edward Cunningham, edited by Gary […]
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CWT Book Review: Reading the Man
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by […]
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Mary Todd Lincoln’s Lost Letters
Just found, 25 notes cast new light on the manic-depressed first lady. On July […]
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The Wild World of Jim Lane
A slippery opportunist with a violent temper, the senator-soldier from Indiana played a big […]
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Black Soldiers, Southern Victory?
Patrick Cleburne’s plan for arming slaves might have turned the tide of the Civil […]