Artist-engineer Alexander Lippisch conceived more than 50 radical aircraft designs, including the Nazis’ rocket-powered Me-163.
Search results
Posted inUncategorized
Rome’s Big Idea
A grand long-term strategy allowed Roman rulers—both good and bad—to shape the empire’s destiny. […]
Posted inStories
OS2U Kingfisher: Workhorse of the Fleet
Vought’s versatile Kingfisher served as a gun spotter, patrol plane, anti-submarine scout, utility transport and trainer, but downed aircrews remembered it best as an “angel on floats”
Posted inStories
Too Good To Be True: At Manassas Gap
At Manassas Gap, Va., during the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg, it looked like George Meade again had Robert E. Lee at his mercy. He couldn’t capitalize.
Posted inStories
The Reenactor’s Brave New World
Twenty years ago, in the swashbuckling heyday of Civil War reenacting, the unpleasant spectacle that unfolded in the fall in the rolling meadows of the Shenandoah Valley would have been unthinkable.
Posted inStories
Douglas Mawson’s Frozen Flight
Douglas Mawson and his ‘Wingless Wonder’ headed for the Antarctic in 1911. The three […]
Posted inStories
Nate Salsbury Helped Buffalo Bill Become the World’s Top Showman
In the end, he wanted all the credit for Cody’s success.
Posted inReview
American History Review: Lift Every Voice
Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by […]
Posted inInterview
Interview: Ron Chernow / Restoring Grant to Greatness
Ron Chernow’s new biography, “Grant” upsets a century and half of historiography, illuminating Ulysses S. Grant as a flawed but just man who, despite his drinking problem, won the Civil War and, though scandals marred his presidency, should be remembered as one of our major chief executives.
Posted inUncategorized
Revolutionary Spirits
Whiskey had a staggering effect on our history from the get-go. George Washington slept […]