In 1917 25-year-old Edwin Dunning set out to make history by landing his plane on the deck of a moving vessel
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The Half-Cocked Cossack
Freebooter Nikolai Ashinov sought a foothold for Mother Russia in the Red Sea—but his African misadventure only caused embarrassment
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The Price of Valor
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy,” Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. A case in point is Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated man in American military history.
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CWT Book Review: In the Trenches at Petersburg
In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat by Earl J. Hess, […]
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Ural on URLs: The Becker Collection
http://idesweb.bc.edu/becker/ http://www.firsthandexhibit.org/ The inspiration behind “The Becker Collection” Web site is Sheila Gallagher, but […]
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Sacred to the Memory
Two of the nation’s oldest monuments stand on the Bull Run battlefields. In June […]
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Ural on URLs: House Divided Project
housedivided.dickinson.edu The House Divided Project builds on the experience of Dickinson College’s graduates to […]
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CWT Book Review: A Small but Spartan Band
A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia […]
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‘Villains, Vandals and Devils’
Hatred of Yankees helped keep Rebels fighting on. Eighteen-year-old Robert W. Banks worried about […]
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Blue and Gray: Reevaluating Virginia’s ‘Shared History’
It is difficult to imagine what prompted Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell to ignore […]