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Who Really was America’s First Flying Ace: The Case for Eddie Rickenbacker
by John F. Ross In Spring of 1918, during World War I, two American pilots entered…
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Veterans Day: Remembering Those Who Served
by The History Reader Veterans Day is the day we honor and commemorate our brave service…
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Video: The Terrible Choice Faced by Early Pilots
by John F. Ross At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and…
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Why Pilots Didn’t Wear Parachutes during World War 1
By John F. Ross When brand new technology first appears it’s often striking in retrospect to…
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President Carter
by Stuart E. Eizenstat
Grounding the B-1 Bomber Exclusive picture of President…
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Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday
by Tom Clavin
Depiction of the fighting near Dunker Church by Thure…
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The Finest Rough-and-Tumble Fighter
by Jack Kelly
Florence Kelley’s father, William, taught his daughter to read in 1866 using books…
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A Place to Hide
by Ronald H. Balson
A Place to Hide is my ninth novel and the seventh set…
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The Notorious Kid Curry
by Tom Clavin
Kid Curry, born as Harvey Logan. Public domain via…
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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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