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June 25, 1950: Korean War Began Here
By Callie Oettinger The War Began Here—June 25, 1950. [caption id="attachment_1088" align="aligncenter"…
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Korea: Post-WWII Partition
By Jongsoo James Lee 1392 The Founding of Choson Dynasty (1392–1910). 1910 Korea annexed by Japan.…
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Treaty of Tordesillas: The 1494 Decision Still Influencing Today’s World
By Stephen R. Brown The bull Inter Caetera and several other bulls from the same era…
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Libya Since 1969
By Dirk Vandewalle Libya’s Revolution in Perspective 1969–2000 The September 1, 1969 coup in Libya that brought…
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President Ronald Reagan and Libya
By Callie Oettinger In his April 14, 1986 aress to the nation on the United States Air…
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President Ronald Regan: Grenada and Beirut
By Callie Oettinger October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber killed 241 Marines in Beirut. Just a…
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Easy Company Soldier
By Don Malarkey Chapter 12 “WHAT’S A GUY GOTTA DO TO DIE?” Bastogne December 19, 1944–January…
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Military History in Empire
By Steven Saylor My previous novel Roma followed the fortunes of a single family through the…
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Military History in Empire
My previous novel Roma followed the fortunes of a single family through the first thousand years…
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Artillery in the Ia Drang Valley
By Robert Barker The 3d Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmoble) arrived in Qui…
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What Can We Learn from Red Dead Redemption?
by Tore C. Olsson
In his new book Red Dead's History, Tore Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that…
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Pat Nixon and “Panda Diplomacy”
by Heath Hardage Lee
As spring came to Washington in 1972, there was little rest for…
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The Decade in Southern History that (Almost) No One Is Talking About
by Tore C. Olsson
Imagine a bookcase large enough to contain all the works ever written…
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Uncovering Stories in Small Archives
by Kathleen Sheppard
Mary Charlton Jonas (1874-1950) returned to her work at the Egypt Exploration Society’s…
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Butch Gets Busted
by Tom Clavin
This month is the 130th anniversary of when Butch Cassidy was sent to prison in Wyoming for…
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Adventure, Shipwrecks, and the History of the World
David Gibbins's day job is anything but normal. Gibbins has worked in underwater archaeology all his…
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John Colter: The First Mountain Man?
by Tom Clavin
One of the joys of researching and writing (with Bob Drury) Throne of…
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Army Rangers on D-Day
by Tom Clavin
As many of you are aware, this week marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day,…
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