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The Civil War contracting scandal that took down a U.S. senator—and led to the passage of “Lincoln’s Law”...
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What has made the ancient mythology of warrior women so enduring? Does it have any basis in reality?...
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In 1884 Ulysses S. Grant was bankrupt and battling terminal cancer. Then Mark Twain made him an offer he couldn’t refuse...
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Felice Beato took the new art of photography into faraway killing fields and fed his images to a hungry public...
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Until Christianity spread throughout Fiji in the second half of the 19th century, the South Pacific island was riven by constant tribal and feudal violence...
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Do we, like the ants, have organized aggression embedded in our genes? Is it a part of human nature? Or is war learned behavior? Can we ever tell when war began, and where?...
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On June 23, 1942, Captain Robert Tyre Jones Jr. reported for duty at Mitchel Field in Long Island, New York, to Brigadier General John K. Cannon...
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“Teddy,” my father once said to me, “become a lawyer, and I guarantee you’ll make a million bucks by the time you’re thirty. I remember looking him in the eye and saying, “Pop, I think I want to be a writer instead.”...
