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World War I and Vatican Espionage
By Eric Frattini The Vatican I, Rome, Italy, between ca. 1890 and…
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July 27, 1953: Korean War Armistice— Ceasefire Without Peace
By Callie Oettinger The Korean War armistice talks lasted over a year, with the signing taking…
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One Korean War POW’s Story of Capture and Repatriation
By Lewis H. Carlson and Robert Coury Col. Bob Coury retired from the U.S. Air Force…
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Goodbye OSS and Hello CIA: National Security Act of 1947
By Callie Oettinger July 26, 1947 the National Security Act was approved: To promote the national…
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July 21, 1861: First Major Battle of the Civil War
By Christopher J. Olsen In Spring 1861, both sides worked feverishly to train and equip the…
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How Much Did Stalin Know?
By Micheal D. Gordin On July 16, a day before Terminal began, scientists working for the…
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T. E. Lawrence and the Art of War in the Twenty-First Century
By George W. Gawrychl If there were a hall of fame for modern military theorists, Thomas…
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761st Tank Battalion: Patton’s Panthers Would Not Quit
By Charles W. Sasser A cold January rain drizzled onto the rolling red-dust hills of central…
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The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson
By Callie Oettinger Dodger President and general manager Branch Rickey needed: A man of principle. A…
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Lucky Luciano and WWII’s Operation Husky
By Tim Newark Locked in prison, reading daily newspaper reports of Allied victories, Charlie Luciano got…
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Military History
The Centennial Fire
by Chris Wimmer
The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to November…
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War and Reconciliation
by Tom Clavin
Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and Iowa.…
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The Rise of the Weimar Republic
by Susan Ronald
In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the Weimar…
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Crary of the North…and South
by Tom Clavin
It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the North…
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Meet the White House Plumbers
by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh
by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO's new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story of…
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A Long Journey Home
by Tom Clavin
During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to Hell,…
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The Windsors at War
by Alexander Larman
When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that has become…
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Old Houses of the West
by Sandra Dallas
Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest book,…
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