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The Lucky Ones: Dickey Chapelle and Iwo Jima

Wounded

by Lorissa Rinehart

Dickey Chapelle got her story by any means necessary. Sometimes that involved being in the very…
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Jackie Kennedy: PTSD and a Remarkable Fighting Spirit

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by J. Randy Taraborrelli

In July 1964, Jackie Kennedy visited her mother and stepfather, Janet and…
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Escaping Algeria

Syndication

by Lorissa Rinehart

The French had dropped a veritable drag net across the country to keep…
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The Large Hearts of Heroes

Motier Marquiss

by Jack Kelly

On the Fourth of July 1825, Gilbert du Motier, known universally as Lafayette,…
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Reno’s Charge

Charles Marion Russell

by Chris Wimmer

The Battle of the Little Bighorn took place on June 25, 1876, and was one of…
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James Bevel and the Children’s March in Birmingham

Rev Jim Bevel hy

by Paul Kix

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Project C, the ten-week campaign to end segregation in…
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Exemplary Sacrifice Made in the Honest Conquest of Bread

Sally Bradys Italian

by Christina Lynch

In the summer of 2018, I traveled back to Italy to do research…
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The Centennial Fire

Centennial

by Chris Wimmer

The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to…
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War and Reconciliation

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by Tom Clavin

Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and…
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The Rise of the Weimar Republic

Sparticist

by Susan Ronald

In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the…
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The Spirits of Iwo Jima

by P. T. Deutermann

Doing the research for my latest novel, Iwo, 26 Charlie, was a…
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