General James Wolfe capped a three-month British siege in 1759 with an hour of […]
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Book Review: In the Hurricane’s Eye
Nathaniel Philbrick considers how George Washington turned the tide of war on a series of hurricanes in 1780
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Red, White and Blue Over China
Amid the Second Opium War in 1856 a U.S. Navy commander violated his nation’s neutrality to defend the honor of the American flag
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Big Win at Saratoga
Twice battled to a standstill by fiery Benedict Arnold, Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne lost his army—and Britain’s best shot at ending our Revolution
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Raeburn Van Buren’s Big Break
Illustrator Raeburn Van Buren cheered up his fellow doughboys on the Western Front as art editor of ‘The Gas Attack’ magazine.
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Trailside: Weston, West Virginia
State war town, known for its insane asylum, endured bedlam as the proud old dominion broke apart
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The Little Army That Won Big
In 1792 President George Washington and Secretary of War Henry Knox invented a new kind of army to fight Indians in the west. They called it the Legion of the United States
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American History Book Review: The Money Men
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar […]
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A Day to Remember: January 25, 1787- Shays’ Rebellion Gets Bloody
The United States was not kind to the Revolutionary War veterans who had created […]