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LBJ’s Personal Blowtorch
In the wake of the Communist Tet Offensive, LBJ’s point man on pacification policy, […]
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Terror in the Night: The Victoria Hotel
When a truck bomb explodes at the Victoria Hotel officers quarters in Saigon, the […]
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Johnston Comes Out Swinging at Bentonville
Outmanned, disorganized and disheartened, the Confederates could do little more than harass Gen. William […]
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Lincoln’s Final Appeal: The Last Speech of Abraham Lincoln
The president’s last speech reached beyond the war to a peace he wouldn’t experience.
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Field Notes- America’s Civil War March 2015
Cushing’s Medal of Honor awarded More than 151 years after his heroic actions during […]
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It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Civil War
The National Park Service used the sesquicentennial to shed new light on an old […]
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Texas two-step at Palmito Ranch
Colonel John S. “Rip” Ford didn’t like what he saw. A line of blue […]
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War’s Bitter End
After a four-year bloodbath, the guns finally fell silent. Now what? The Civil War […]
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Southern women and their new normal
On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. […]