Noah Webster’s stagecoach book tour was an exercise in survival.
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Smiling Through a Personal Apocalypse
FDR got polio, but polio didn’t get him.
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Weapons Manual: Finland’s Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun
World War II’s senior editor Paraag Shukla gives us a closer look at Finland’s rugged and accurate Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun
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Weapons Manual: Night Stalker-The Soviet’s U-2 biplane
World War II’s senior editor Paraag Shukla explores the Soviet Union’s Polikarpov U-2 biplane, the Night Stalker—used in night raids that terrorized Germans
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Hard Luck Island: The Battle of Wake
When war came to Wake Island, its defenders faced an unknown enemy—and overwhelming odds
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Daily Quiz for September 25, 2017
On June 30, 1934, the Night of the Long Knives in Germany, hundreds of this group of people were assassinated on Hitler’s orders.
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Daily Quiz for September 24, 2017
Originally called the German Workers’ Party, the Nazi Party was founded in this year.
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Daily Quiz for September 23, 2017
Until 1956, this island was known as Bedloe’s Island.
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CWT Book Review: War News Blue and Gray in Black and White
War News Blue and Gray in Black and White: Newspapers in the Civil War […]