THE BEST YEARS of Our Lives (1946) opens with the fortuitous meeting of three […]
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Book Review: Soldier Girls, by Helen Thorpe
In Soldier Girls, Helen Thorpe traces the combat experiences of three female soldiers in recent conflicts in the Middle East to explore how war changes women.
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Book Review: Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls
Both on paper and in person Alvin Lynn tracked Kit Carson’s participation in the 1864 First Battle of the Adobe Walls.
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Interview: Rachel Thompson / George C. Marshall and The Marshall Center
An interview with Rachel Yarnell Thompson, Special Projects Director of The George C. Marshall International Center and author of “Marshall—A Statesman Shaped in the Crucible of War.”
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Book Review: Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen / The Films of William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen: The Films of William F. Cody, by Sandra […]
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Taos Mutiny of 1855
The heated street brawl against stiff-necked Major George Blake, pictured at right, led to the disintegration of Company F, 1st U.S. Dragoons, in New Mexico Territory
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Interview: R. Scott Stephenson / Museum of the American Revolution
R. Scott Stephenson, director of interpretation and collections for the Museum of the American Revolution, looks toward the 2016 opening date.
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Book Review: In the Hour of Victory, by Sam Willis
Drawing on a newly discovered cache of period dispatches, Sam Willis looks anew on the turn-of-the-19th-century clashes that ushered in the “veritable golden age of British naval success.”
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Book Review: Citizen Emperor / Napoleon in Power
Rafe Blaufarb reviews the second volume of Philip Dwyer’s two-part biography of Napoleon, which follows the emperor at the height of his career.
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The Wereth 11, a Little-Known Massacre During the Battle of the Bulge
The details of the Malmedy Massacre, in which members of Joachim Peiper’s 1st SS […]