Mo-chi did, too, although she was unique. Mo-chi, known as the first female Cheyenne […]
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Mary Schwandt’s Ordeal During the Sioux Uprising
Her family fell, and she was captured. Of the many personal stories from the […]
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Pinkerton Operative John Fraser Served Half a Century
He worked on the Fountain murder case. Historian C.L. Sonnichsen introduced Pinkerton operative J.C. […]
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Interview: Corey Recko / Fountains’ Disappearance Still Attracts Attention
The murder case lives on in Corey Recko’s book.
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Trailside: Knoxville, Tennessee – Burnside Bounces Back
In the summer and fall of 1863, Eastern Tennessee would be center stage for critical Western Theater fighting.
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CIA Man Thought He Had Winning Formula
Could Ed Lansdale have won the Vietnam War if U.S. leaders had just listened […]
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Experience: Wartime Diarist
For seven years Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, who would become world-famous for her Pippi Longstocking books, kept notes on “a world gone mad.”
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Freedom By Hatchet: An African–American sailor used a sharp blade to turn the tables on his Rebel captors
Steward William Tillman waited more than a week to take back his freedom after Confederate privateers had captured and boarded the schooner S.J. Waring.
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Where did the 1500-hour Requirement for ATP come from?
Do you know where the 1500-hour requirement to get an ATP came from? When […]
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Daily Quiz for May 15, 2018
Noted historian Richard Norton Smith said of this humanitarian, he “saved more lives through his various relief efforts than all the dictators of the twentieth century together could snuff out.”