Near an abandoned French farm in 1918 field telephones crackled with orders in a language that baffled German eavesdroppers—and the code talkers were born
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Daily Quiz for January 5, 2018
In December 1942, the Pullman Company presented a specially refurbished railroad car to the president. Now named U.S. Car No. 1, the railroad car had previously been named for this explorer.
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American History Book Review: General Jo Shelby’s March
General Jo Shelby’s March by Anthony Arthur; Random House Confederate General Jo Shelby refused […]
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American History Book Review: Lost Rights
Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen Relic by David Howard; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt […]
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Space Enough, and Time
A frontier photographer explores the limits of technology and art and shoots the first […]
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Hate Turns to Love
How 158 remarkable letters between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams slowly dissolved the hard […]
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What Is Out There?
With the nation a mere 43 years old, a party of “scientifick” explorers hurtled […]
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Mother Knew Best
Ninety years ago Harry Burn obeyed his mom and cast the deciding ballot that […]
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Benjamin Franklin’s Greatest Invention
Citizen Ben figured out how to make paper money as valuable as gold or silver coins—and got rich in the process.
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Book Review: What Spawns Homegrown Terror?
To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. […]