Alexander Rossino revisits Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army and asks why he made the choices he did in Maryland and beyond.
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Documenting the Allies’ Grueling March North Through Italy and France
Carl Chamberlain went to war with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 334th Quartermaster Supply Depot Company—and returned with hundreds of photos.
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Tin Pan Alley: Where America’s Recording Industry Was Born
Where the makers of the American
songbook cut their tuneful teeth.
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An Ohio English Teacher Went to Fight in the Civil War and Got His First True Taste of Battle
An Ohio teacher got his first true taste of battle as Vicksburg fell in the summer of 1863. Two arduous but fulfilling years in uniform followed.
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In The Hornet’s Nest: Armored Cavalry Came to the Rescue of Soldiers Ambushed at Loc Ninh
Things looked hopeless for infantrymen ambushed in a rubber plantation in Vietnam until armored cavalry assault vehicles arrived to help them
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No Guns, No Glory: The Race to Arm America
To supply American patriots with the weapons needed to fight the well-armed British regulars, the founders of the fledging nation turned abroad.
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How Nixon’s Operation Linebacker Countered North Vietnam’s All-Out Bid to Conquer the South
Nixon believed the bombing campaign might draw Hanoi into a peace agreement.
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Does the Douglas TBD-1 Devastator Deserve Its Bad Rap?
Historically viewed as devastatingly bad, the Douglas TBD was nevertheless a groundbreaking torpedo bomber when it first flew in 1935.
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Fighting the Enemy Was a Civil War Hazard. So Was Manufacturing Weapons.
Explosions from Connecticut to Mississippi killed or maimed hundreds
of munitions workers
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Complete List of Military ‘Items’ Named for Confederacy Is More Than 750 Long
The list’s debut follows a March 17 announcement that the commission would recommend nine Army posts for renaming