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Pop Warner and the World’s First Indoor Professional Football Tournament
by Steve Sheinkin After four seasons at the Carlisle Indian School, Pop Warner was already considered…
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Coach Chuck Klausing: Football in the Shadow of Paul Brown
by Greg Nichols Chapter 1: In the Shadow of Paul Brown From a distance, the corrugated…
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The Final Outcome: Braddock Tigers Football and the Strike of 1959
by Greg Nichols For reasons that had nothing to do with Eisenhower, Taft-Hartley, or the Supreme…
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The Legend of the Braddock Tigers
by Greg Nichols Big Bertha, a massive driving sled, haunted the Tigers’ dreams. It was rare…
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Army-Navy Football: 100+ Years in Images
By Callie Oettinger Nov. 29, 1890: First Army/Navy football game was played…
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The NFL and the Medal of Honor
By Clint VanWinkle Nearly 28,000 people braved the rain to watch the New York Giants play…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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