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My Virginia Farmland Was Haunted by the Civil War. It Helped Me Make a Connection With History.
An excerpt from author and artist Peter Svenson’s book “Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground.”
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Giant Killer in the War of 1812
William Jones’s shrewd strategy was the key to America’s asymmetric warfare against the Royal […]
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Women in War
Western art of the last 500 years illustrates the diverse roles women have played in times of conflict
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The Origins of War
Do we, like the ants, have organized aggression embedded in our genes? Is it a part of human nature? Or is war learned behavior? Can we ever tell when war began, and where?
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‘Bitter Bierce’ and the macabre side of war
Chilling, unpredictable war stories were the forte of Ambrose Bierce. Before there was Alfred […]
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MADness of the Cold War
How crazy was the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction? Turns out, it […]
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Hemingway at War
War gave the legendary novelist his best stories—and a lifetime of trouble. Greg Clark […]
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Wild and Woolly War of Words
A Western writer wages a one-man battle to choose the best frontier quote. Among […]
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Book Review: Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867
Andrew Masich’s narrative of wartime events across the region sorts out the social and political entities also competing for dominance.