Consolidated developed the PB4Y-2 Privateer from its successful bomber.
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First He Castrated Himself. Then He Assassinated a US President
Charles Guiteau told a local newspaper that he shot James A. Garfield “without malice or murderous intent.”
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This Montana Painter Takes His Inspiration From the ‘Cowboy Artist’
Gary Lynn Roberts pays homage to Charles M. Russell in “Charlie and the Pranksters.”
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Driven Mad By His Wife’s Passing, This Union Soldier Suffered an Ignoble Death
John Wesley Horner fought for Michigan but later found himself teaching in Kansas before his untimely demise.
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Revolutionary War Soldiers Slated for Reburial 243 Years After Battle
The rediscovered remains of American Revolutionary War soldiers who died in South Carolina more than 240 years ago are set to be reinterred this weekend.
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He Served the Army and Sitting Bull Well—Both Before and After Facing Charges for Murder
Johnnie Bruguier was both French Canadian and Sioux and learned to straddle both worlds.
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Made in Japan, but with an engine by Harley-Davidson
The American company did not know its customer was really the Japanese military.
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Civil War Reenactor Goes Off Script, Admits Plan to Bomb Battlefield
Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, a former Civil War reenactor, was federally charged for mailing threatening letters and planting an explosive device at the Cedar Creek Battlefield in Middletown, Virginia.
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Was the Civil War Really a Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight?
Statistics help us understand who went to war and why.
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B-17s To Get Their Wings Clipped
Concerns about the wing spars will keep the venerable warplanes on the ground.