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Black Soldiers Who Served Their Country Have a Museum of Their Own in Houston
The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum is for all military buffs. Once overlooked in most […]
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Valor | John Lee Levitow
Air Force AC-47 gunships, called “Spooky” and “Puff the Magic Dragon,” prowled the skies […]
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Interview: Tim Weiner / spy trade expert
Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize for his national security reporting and the […]
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American History Review: 20th Century With Mike Wallace
20th Century With Mike Wallace: America at War 10 episodes, 470 minutes; Athena Nearly […]
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Interview: J. David Hacker / An Awful Tally Goes Higher
In December 2011, J. David Hacker, a professor of history at SUNY–Binghamton, made headlines […]
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The Glory of the Sun King
Over his lengthy reign Louis XIV defeated successive generations of European monarchy—but in so doing he sealed the fate of the absolute monarchy in France.
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First Strike Against Japan
Long before the United States entered the war, an American aviator hatched a brazen […]
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The Man Who Saved Korea
Matthew B. Ridgway, who brought a beaten Eighth Army back from disaster in 1951, was a thinking—and fighting—man’s soldier.
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Remagen: Bridge to Victory
American GIs seized a bridge over the Rhine River to “kick in the door” […]