In August 1942, marine special forces raided a tiny Pacific atoll. Little was gained […]
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Strange Fortune
An American sub at the Battle of Midway finds that luck can be a […]
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The Man Who Would Be Ike
What if Frank Andrews had survived his 1943 air crash? The American president’s personal […]
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The Storm Before the Storm
Hundreds of thousands of troops were primed for the world’s largest amphibious operation. One […]
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Codemakers: History of the Navajo Code Talkers
After being vexed by Japanese cryptographers during World War II, the Americans succeeded by developing a secret code based on the language of the Navajos.
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Unbreakable: The Navajo Code
The Japanese cracked every American combat code until an elite team of Marines joined the fight. One veteran tells the story of creating the Navajo code and proving its worth on Guadalcanal.
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Forced to the Cannon’s Mouth’: An Ohio Regiment’s Desperate Venture From Perryville to the War’s End
John Marshall Branum knew about abolition and slavery in the South from an early age. His parents were both Swedenborgian, members of a Christian sect founded in the 18th century that followed the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, a theologian and philosopher known for his praise of the spiritual character of the African people. When the Civil War began, the 21-year-old Branum was enrolled at the Hopedale Normal School, a teachers’ college near his hometown of Bridgeport, Ohio. The school, which counted future Union icon George Armstrong Custer among its alumni, had been established by New England abolitionists in 1849.
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Classic Dispatches | The Great Exodus
Cowles detailed her experiences as a war correspondent in her first book, “Looking for Trouble,” published in 1941, from which the narrative that follows is excerpted
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Media Digest | Myth-Busting the Tet Offensive
Fought across the length and breadth of South Vietnam, the 1968 Tet Offensive ended in a military defeat for the Communists but, according to conventional wisdom, crippled President Lyndon B. Johnson politically and undermined public support for the war because of its scale and casualties
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Insight: Capitol Commanders
A Congressional committee kept a close eye on Union generals Report of the Joint […]