William Roulette burst out of his cellar door, thrilled to discover that the soldiers […]
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Blue and Gray: The Union Army Brought Emancipation to Thousands
Abraham Lincoln invited the audience at his Second Inaugural Address to join in gratitude […]
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Interview: Susannah Ural / Civil War Author
Susannah Ural received her Ph.D. from Kansas State University, where her dissertation morphed into […]
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CWT Today- October 2010
Cleveland Reopens War Monument One of the nation’s most elaborate Civil War memorials recently […]
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Wildcat Warrior
Marine Corps ace of aces Joe Foss wreaked havoc on the Japanese over Guadalcanal, becoming the first to equal Eddie Rickenbacker’s American World War I victory record.
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Myth of the Zero
Mitsubishi’s legendary A6M ran circles around opposing fighters early in World War II, but by 1945 its odds of surviving a dogfight were close to zero.
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Project Tip-Tow
The “floating wingtip” concept led to Cold War experiments that had pilots tip-towing on the verge of disaster.
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How the Battle of Hurtgen Forest Became One of the Biggest U.S. Losses
American planners who sent GIs stumbling into the Hürtgen Forest in 1944 had their eyes on Germany, not on the perils before them
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Daily Quiz for December 1, 2017
This was the first American city to host the Olympics.
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CWT Book Review: Double Death
Double Death: The True Story of Pryce Lewis, the Civil War’s Most Daring Spy […]