Think of the Western Front as a great metropolis, whose chief industry was not production but destruction. From 1914 until 1918 it was the largest city on earth
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No Peace in the Hetch Hetchy Valley
Flooding the Hetch Hetchy Valley was the answer to San Francisco’s drinking water problem—and […]
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Fateful Voyage of Lusitania
The Cunard liner’s captain expected a safe Atlantic crossing, but a German U-boat would bring Lusitania’s journey to a devastating end
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Inconvenient Truth
A daring reporter tells Abraham Lincoln what his own government would not.
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Rethinking the Revolution
Americans remember the Civil War for its unsparing brutality. But was our fight for […]
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American History Headlines- October 2007
Lincoln Artifacts Found The National Archives announced in June the discovery of a handwritten […]
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Douglas Fairbanks’s Drama on the High Seas
Famed for his heroics on screen, a Hollywood idol topped himself at war as leader of a band of seaborne deception specialists
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CWT Book Review: Military Necessity
Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy by Paul D. Escott, Greenwood Publishing Group, […]
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CWT Book Review: Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac
Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac by William Swinton No victorious military force […]