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Ewa Marine Corps Air Station Seconds Before The Pearl Harbor Attack
Michael E. Haskew Ewa Marine Corps Air Station Technical Sergeant Henry H. Anglin rose early on…
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Nick Irving: For a Sniper, Timing is Everything
by Nick Irving Timing is Everything: from the book Way of The Reaper As soon as…
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The Battle of Buena Vista, February 22-23, 1847
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab American Battles and Campaigns - The Battle of…
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Robert Lee Scott Jr: A Double Ace of the Flying Tigers
by Robert Coram Robert Lee Scott Jr. For all of his long life, the south was…
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The Urban-Rural Divide: Deep Roots in American History
by Daniel Blake-Smith The urban-rural divide throughout American history Anyone observing America’s ongoing culture wars, especially…
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The Invasion of Sicily 1943
by Christian Jennings The Invasion of Sicily By late spring 1943, the Americans and British and…
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Charles Ponzi: What Makes a Con Artist?
by T.D. Thornton When you think of the history of con artists, what images come to…
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Jeremiah Hamilton: Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire
by Shane White Jeremiah Hamilton: Prince of Darkness At a little after ten o’clock on Tuesday…
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Who is Israel? How the National Character of Israeli Shapes our World
by Alon Gratch War, Peace and other Cycles of Change Perhaps the best metaphor for change…
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The True Cost of Spice: Murder in the History of Nutmeg
By Giles Milton A change in the cloud pattern brought the first suggestion of land. Next…
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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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