British administrators put down the 1948–60 communist uprising using a successful and surprising mix of counterinsurgency tactics
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Web Update: Spirit of St. Louis 2
The 91st anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s record-making transatlantic flight has come and gone while […]
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Spirit of St. Louis 2
If all goes according to plan, a replica of Charles Lindbergh’s historic Spirit of […]
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Audiobook Review| Inside Camp David by Michael Giorgione
Author Michael Giorgione brings listeners inside the gates of America’s historic presidential retreat.
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Daily Quiz for July 12, 2018
This author coined the term “the Gilded Age” to describe the period in America from 1870 to 1900.
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The Bloody 100th
The Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group earned its nickname the hard way in the brutal skies over Germany.
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American Schemers: ‘Big Tim’ Sullivan, ‘King of The Bowery’
The corpse was headed for New York’s potter’s field until a cop lifted the coffin lid. “Why, it’s Tim! That’s Big Tim!”
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Saving Sergeant York
A century after a pacifist became an American war hero, another soldier shot down doubts about his story
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Daily Quiz for July 11, 2018
When US General McAuliffe was asked to surrender at Bastogne he made this response.