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American History Book Review: Custer
Custer By Larry McMurtry, Simon & Schuster Larry McMurtry, who won the Pulitzer Prize […]
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Mind of a Conquistador: Hernando de Soto
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Lincoln’s Feisty Foil: Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens fought even harder for black equality than the Great Emancipator. THE NEW […]
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The Miracle Men of Midway
The American victory at Midway had more to do with bold leaders than lucky breaks.
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5 Questions: Sailors in Sepia
Union and Confederate Seamen and Marines Embraced a Photographic Phenomenon Ronald S. Coddington is […]
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The Army Vs. The Mob
When railroad workers ignited a widespread, violent strike in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes […]
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Let’s Make a Deal: The Great Compromise
There would have been no Constitution without compromise, but politics trumped principles in surprising— […]
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Interview: Garry Wills / author and historian
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Rebel Pariah: General Roswell Ripley
General Roswell Ripley couldn’t get along with anyone.
Not even Robert E. Lee.
For nearly four years Roswell Sabine Ripley wore the wreath and three stars of a Confederate general officer, despite being an unmistakable Yankee by any definition. He hardly fit the image of the gallant Southern officer nobly defending the “Lost Cause,” even expressing distaste for Robert E. Lee, which put him in limited company among Confederate general officers. After the war, he earned an even more unusual credential: the only former Rebel general tapped by the Chinese to serve in the Far East.