This old editor feels a kinship with author and Western adventurer Stephen Crane
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Franklin’s Great Escape
Major General William B. Franklin was a Union corps commander in various theaters during the war, but battlefield success typically eluded him.
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Lincoln, Monuments, and Memory: Harold Holzer’s Remembrance Day Address
Lincoln Prize-winning historian Harold Holzer, recipient of a 2008 National Humanities Medal, former co-chairman […]
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Artists | Sketches of War
Victor Lundy is best known as a modernist architect. But a set of his old sketchbooks offers a vivid visual diary of life—and death—in wartime
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INTERVIEW: Judith Giesberg / Sex and the Civil War
Anthony Comstock, notorious anti-obscenity campaigner, served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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Daily Quiz for November 21, 2017
This American first lady’s Secret Service code name was Rover.
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1939 Polish Cavalry vs. German Panzers
The real story is far more interesting than the enduring Nazi-promulgated myth.
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To Catch a Traitor
Recruited by George Washington to kidnap the turncoat Benedict Arnold, John Champe had to […]
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Shooting Down a Legend
Despite its enduring fame, the Red Baron’s slow, crash-prone Fokker triplane was no great […]
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Everyman’s Gun–The AK-47
How Cold War politics made the AK-47 the world’s most ubiquitous gun. Plus—Fidel, Saddam, […]