On the march to San Diego, Gen. Stephen Kearny underestimated his foes and rushed into combat with a half-baked plan.
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Trade Off: Exchanging German-Americans for POWs in WWII
Eleven-year-old Ingrid Eiserloh’s world changed forever on January 8, 1942, one month and one […]
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American Mosaic – February 2015
Boston Honors Prickly Poe Orphan, West Point dropout, critic, poet, novelist, magazine editor and […]
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The Thin Red Line Between Fact and Fiction
Each man fought his own war—on Guadalcanal and in James Jones’s novel
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Stand Watie’s War: The Last Confederate General
The last Confederate general surrendered on June 23, 1865. But his legacy still haunts the Cherokee Nation.
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Southern Showdown: American Patriots Fight the Loyalists in South Carolina
In 1778 it was clear to the British that three years of fighting in […]
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The Sounds of Silence
Acoustic shadows bedeviled commanders on both sides during the war. “I received with […]
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The Song That Marches On: History of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic” is far more popular today than it was […]
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Control the Heartland: Union Ironclads in the Western Theater
A peculiar fleet of shallow-draft, heavily armed gunboats patrolled the tributaries around Cairo, Ill., […]
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Arlington’s Enslaved Savior: Selina Gray
Today the Gray family story is a key part of the history of Arlington House, and the continued existence of some of America’s most treasured artifacts can be attributed to this one remarkable woman