The worst stain on a chief executive’s legacy is a hot temper.
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Interview: Jane Boote / More Than 100 Miles From Home
World War II army nurse Jane Boote talks about meeting John Doolittle Raiders, her first time deploying overseas, and what treating war casualties was like.
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How America Got Its Citizens to Ration Clothing During WWII
With wartime clothing restrictions, giving an inch could go a mile for the war effort…
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Film Review: Judgment at Nuremberg
The 1961 film’s powerful message unexpectedly took on heightened significance when breaking news interrupted its televised premiere.
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Fearless Farragut
The Union admiral followed a key tenet: judge the risk by the prize, and risk all if necessary
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Audiobook Review: Al Capone’s Beer Wars
Author John J. Binder and reader David Colacci offer an audiobook that parlays factual analysis into an enlightening and engaging performance
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The 1st Cavalry’s Pegasus Ride Through Hell
Sent to relieve the besieged Marine base at Khe Sanh, the 1st Cavalry Faced a tough fight of its own at Landing Zone Wharton.
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Experience | The Resister
“I must unburden my memory,” Odd Nansen wrote in the diary he secretly kept during his three and a half years in Nazi concentration camps, all the while wondering whether anyone would believe what he described
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Poison Pen Confederate: Adalbert Volck’s Etchings Oozed Scorn and Rancor
It was late 1861 and the Baltimore dentist Adalbert Volck faced interrogation by Union Maj. Gen. John Adams Dix over a series of scathing caricatures of Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, who had occupied the city the previous May.