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Catharine Arnold
Ship of Death: A Terrifying and Implacable Enemy
by Catharine Arnold
In the final part of her Ship of Death essay, Catharine Arnold wraps…
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Ship of Death: Rates on the Rise
by Catharine Arnold
With the death toll rising from Spanish flu, burials at sea became more…
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Ship of Death: Spanish Flu on the High Seas
by Catharine Arnold
As conditions worsen on the USS Leviathan in October of 1918, another troopship,…
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Ship of Death: “We Must Go At Any Cost”
by Catharine Arnold
Revisiting the American soldiers aboard the USS Leviathan, Catharine Arnold discusses the dark,…
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Ship of Death: The Tragic Tale of the USS Leviathan
by Catharine Arnold
In three successive waves, from spring 1918 to summer 1919, the ‘Spanish flu’…
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Edward VII’s Fight Against the Queen
by Catharine Arnold Many of Edward VII's friendships much distressed the Queen, who was equally disturbed…
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Catharine Arnold
Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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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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