Drafts
Published: May 01, 2012 at 4:37 pm
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Gordon Berg |
Published: March 29, 2012 at 10:00 am
Author and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce wrote of an ugly war, not the romanticized version found in most writings by his fellow veterans. His war was waged deep within the conscience of the individual solider and was often cloaked in supernaturalism.
Published: March 07, 2012 at 11:51 am
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The Beast turned loose in New Orleans
Benjamin Butler fed starving Southerners and prevented
the spread of deadly disease, but nobody remembers that.
By Alan G. Gauthreaux
Crescent City captured
A New York …
Ronald Spector |
Published: February 01, 2012 at 10:46 am
The U.S. Navy reinvented itself—and the American sailor—during a century of radical change in technology and warfare
Caitlin Newman |
Published: November 27, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Pocket-sized books weren’t just an escape for American troops serving overseas: they were a reminder of what they were fighting for
Dana Huntley |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 12:51 pm
It's hard to believe that for the workers and their families of Georgian England, however, the mills meant a way of life far superior to that available to agricultural laborers, crofters and the subsistence farming of the time.
Vietnam magazine |
Published: August 08, 2011 at 9:03 pm
The cost of bringing our wars home
Last April, in Benghazi, Libya, two photographers covering the brutal war boiling over in North Africa were killed in a mortar blast as they followed rebels repelling an attack by government forces. Tim …
Published: August 05, 2011 at 4:28 pm
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Tim Rowland |
Published: July 20, 2011 at 10:10 am
Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee camp on the outskirts of Hagerstown, Maryland, in September of 1862. Image courtesy of Weider History Group archive.
War seemed far away to the editors of a Maryland weekly newspaper–until …
Published: November 05, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Gettysburg on the third day…
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: July 28, 2010 at 5:51 pm
During the Vietnam War, the F-105D Thunderchief flew more than 20,000 missions, accounting for more than 75 percent of all U.S. bombing sorties between 1965-1972. It suffered the highest loss rate of any plane that flew over North Vietnam.
Published: May 21, 2010 at 10:33 am
The July 2010 Aviation History has articles on the Messerschmitt Me-262, the Napier Sabre engine, Japan's fleet of captured B-17s, Bernard Pietenpol, Britain's R 101 airship, and Whatson's Whizzers.
Published: May 17, 2010 at 4:13 pm
In Country: Remembering the Vietnam War, edited by John Prados, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2011
If Consumer Reports published a guide to authors of Vietnam War books, in the column rating "Sentimentality," John Prados …
Published: April 25, 2010 at 10:52 am
Missing Vimeo API Consumer Key.…
Published: October 01, 2009 at 1:49 pm
State officials as well as volunteers are working to establish a state park in an area of Bates County, Mo., where the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry skirmished with Confederate guerrillas in October 1862. The encounter is known today as the …
Published: August 01, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Many Union soldiers wrote about the soul-chilling yells of attacking Confederates. Thanks to the Museum of the Confederacy, you can hear the real thing on a CD featuring the authentic yell as performed by two elderly Confederate veterans. The two …
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