Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots By Thomas S. Kidd; Basic Books We all know […]
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Light Horse- Harry Lee: Overreaching Hero of the Revolution
AS THE CIVIL WAR heated up in the winter of 1862, Robert E. Lee […]
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We’ve Been Here Before: We Keep Politics Out of Religion, But Religion Always Creeps Into Politics
In September 1960, John F. Kennedy, in the homestretch of his race against Richard […]
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Encounter: John Adams’ Bow to King George III
When John Adams was living near Paris in April 1785, serving as an American […]
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WWII Today- February 2012
Japan Enslaves Koreans—Twice Kim Hui-jong was forced to work as a slave laborer for […]
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Germany’s Secret Army, 1918-20
Post-World War I “Freikorps” paramilitary units won control of Germany’s streets amid revolutionary chaos. […]
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Hearts, Minds, and Herbicides
Long before dioxin-laced Agent Orange supplanted Agents Blue, Purple and Pink, the Kennedy administration […]
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Free at Last: Operation Homecoming
Forty years ago, Operation Homecoming saw nearly 600 American POWs freed—and began the task […]
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Stanley Karnow: An Interesting Man in Interesting Times
Restless, skeptical, petulant and compulsively inquisitive, to the end. Stanley Karnow, the journalist and […]
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Phantom of the Deep: Germany’s Underwater Wonder Weapon
Germany’s stealthy Type XXI U-boat was a true technological breakthrough, but it aided the Allies more than the Nazis