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Edward Pollard: Defeated South’s White Liar
Author created ‘Lost Cause’ myth that underpinned Jim Crow
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Frederick II: How the War-Hungry Prussian Monarch Came to be Revered
Though crazy, war-hungry, vindictive and nasty, history still views the monarch Frederick II of Prussia as a great leader.
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War Declared!
Why did the Founding Fathers make it so difficult? The president sat in the […]
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Military History Review: Ancient Wars- Sparta
Ancient Wars: Sparta by Eidos Interactive, 2007, $39.99. Set between 700 and 300 BC, […]
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Sacred Soil: Hidden Civil War History Buried at D.C.’s Battleground National Cemetery
There are 147 national cemeteries in the United States, but none as unique perhaps […]
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Views of War and Revolution in Russia
Throughout history, artists have portrayed the military events of their times. We think of […]
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The Great War’s Human Plight
War does not much discriminate as to its choice of victims. Military strategists have often […]
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WWII Review: Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
Dorie Miller is best known as a black navy cook at Pearl Harbor who saves his captain during the Japanese attack, but a new book reveals his full story
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World War II Travel: Louisiana Maneuvers
Travel writer Mark D. Van Ells explores Louisiana’s World War II training grounds