American inability to connect the dots is well known, but what about the intelligence […]
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The Tet Offensive, 52 Years On
It is hard to believe that 52 years have passed since the start of […]
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Interview: Joe Jackson / Wild West Author
Jackson’s biography of Lakota holy man Black Elk earned the author a Western Writers of America Spur Award.
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Sing, Cowboy, Sing!
From its mythical cattle drive origins, Western music flourished in romantic stories, novels, recordings and film, earning its place in the mosaic of American folk music
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Flying Container Ship: The XC-120
The Fairchild XC-120 “Pack plane” featured an intriguing modular transport design that never achieved […]
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Audiobook Review: Building the Great Society / Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House
Author Joshua Zeitz explains how the men behind LBJ’s Great Society made desegregation the building block for governmental programs.
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I See Your Cahokia and Raise You My Quivira
A Spanish musket ball found outside Arkansas City, Arkansas, burnishes a local academic’s claim […]
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Finding Wyatt
Recent research and discoveries have led to a fuller understanding of famed lawman Wyatt Earp and his turbulent times
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Daily Quiz for July 26, 2018
Students at Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee began a study of the Holocaust in 1998. To understand the magnitude of people exterminated by the Nazis, the children began collecting these items.