Retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule combines history and memoir, reflecting on Confederate memorials and his education in segregated academies.
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‘Battle of the Beams’: Germany’s Invisible Secret Weapon That Could Have Devastated Britain
Physicist R.V. Jones helped foil the Luftwaffe’s sophisticated radio navigation system.
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Should Pope be a Punchline?
For starters, there is scant evidence he said that “Headquarters in the Saddle” line.
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Last Gasp at Granville: The Daring German Attack on Allied-Occupied France
In 1945 a German raiding force from the Channel Islands launched a daring attack on a port in Allied-occupied France
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Notes from the Underground Railroad: How Slaves Found Freedom
Black slaves recall their perilous journey to freedom using a network of hidden trails and safehouses laid out by freedmen and white abolitionists.
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‘The Savagery of Guerrilla Warfare’—Readers’ Letters Weigh in on Crazy Military Battle
Readers sound off about the Lee-Enfield rifle, Robert Rogers’ Rangers, the Battles of Cedar Creek and Schmidt, U-853, Charles ‘The Hammer’ Martel and Curtis LeMay in our November ’21 issue
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Top 8 Civil War Landmarks to Check Out in Historic Baltimore
Learn more about Baltimore’s Civil War past, when Southern sympathizers attacked Union troops in April 1861—the war’s first blood drawn in action
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In God We Trust: Did George B. McClellan Suffer from a Messianic Complex?
George B. McClellan is accused of character defects and mental illness for his religious beliefs. But those views were not unique.
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A Clash of Confederate Personalities at Gettysburg
Personality clash between fiery Rebel commanders comes to a head during the trek to Gettysburg.
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Crossing the ‘Rubicon’ into the North
A “High Private” relays his experiences on the march from Manassas, Va., to Sharpsburg, Md.