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Top 10 Game-Changing Weapons That Debuted In the 19th Century

by Jon Guttman1/3/20241/3/2024

Painting of the United States Senate, a.d. 1850, pub. C. 1855 colour lithograph. Compromise of Clay; Henry Clay 1777 - 1852

America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again

by Glenn W. LaFantasie1/2/20241/3/2024

Interior of The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama

Civil War Art, in the Round and Mobile

by Richard H. Holloway1/1/202412/8/2023

Photo of Vietnamese students sit in a courtyard at City University in Paris, Aug. 27, 1963, at the start of a proposed 24-hour hunger strike against actions of the government in South Viet Nam. The government has put the country under martial law to quell protests of Buddhist monks and students.

How Did World Media View the War in Vietnam?

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/28/20231/4/2024

Laura Fair

After Shooting Her Lover, This Widowmaker Pleaded Insanity

by Chuck Lyons12/28/20232/5/2024

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This German Baroness Dodged Cannonballs During the American Revolution

by Frederika von Riedesel and Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/27/202312/28/2023

Meet the Norwegian Warrior Who Fought in Vietnam

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/26/202312/26/2023

Photo of a “walkies” doll toy.

The “Wilson Walkie”—a Cottage Industry Answer to Mattel

by Dana B. Shoaf12/26/202312/20/2023

Cephas William “Dick” Parr

The Scout Who Almost Was

by David Lauterborn12/22/202311/2/2023

Photo of Little Round Top, at Gettysburg National Military Park, Pa., offers a sweeping view. From this hill, on the left end of the Union line, Lt. Col. Joshua Chamberlain led the 20th Maine Volunteers in a bayonet counterattack against the 15th Alabama Infantry and other Confederate units on July 2, 1863.

The World’s Most Visitor-Friendly Battlefields

by David T. Zabecki12/22/202312/28/2023