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May Picture of the Month

Published: May 01, 2012 at 4:37 pm

Ambrose Bierce and America's First Great War Stories

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.

Table of Contents - May 2012 America's Civil War

Published: March 07, 2012 at 11:51 am
Click to subscribe to America's Civil WarFeatures 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 …

The U.S. Navy's Sea Change

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

Armed Services Editions: A Few Square Inches of Home

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

Weaving Life at Quarry Bank Mill

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.

Letter from Vietnam magazine - August 2011

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 …

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Published: August 05, 2011 at 4:28 pm
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What a difference a day makes

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 …

Pennsylvannia 145 Infantry

Published: November 05, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Gettysburg on the third day…

Arsenal - F-105D Thunderchief

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.

Table of Contents - July 2010 Aviation History

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.

Test Vietnam Review

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 …

2011 GI Film Festival

Published: April 25, 2010 at 10:52 am
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New Missouri Park to Honor 1st Kansas Colored Infantry: October/November 2009

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 …

Ever Heard a Real Rebel Yell?: August/September 2009

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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