From southwest Minnesota quarries Indians have long extracted the sacred stone for their ceremonial pipe bowls
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A Hanging Offense: The American Hangman of Nuremberg
When an American executioner dispatched top Nazis at Nuremberg, was his method torturously inefficient, by design?
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What We Learned From Bryn Glas, 1402
Takeaways from the battle between Welsh and English forces
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Death in the West
From our 2015 archives: Award-winning writer Robert M. Citino discusses the intense Battle of the Ruhr…
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Johnny Alison: American Eagle
How the late, great Johnny Alison became a U.S. Air Force icon.
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The Untold Story of America’s First Park Ranger: Yellowstone’s Harry Yount
Yount wintered at Yellowstone
and inspired creation of the National Park Service .
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Larger Than Life: The Infamous Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring was an outsize character in every sense of the term…
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Daily Quiz for May 26, 2016
On February 17, 1862 General U. S. Grant accepted this Confederate General’s unconditional surrender.
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Was This British WWI Hero a Spy for Japan in WWII?
Royal Navy pilot Rutland earned a reputation as a WWI hero before a misstep led to his disgrace in 1941
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Contesting Castile
Before there was a Spain, two half-brothers waged a less-than-chivalrous civil war for control […]