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  The North’s Last POW Camp

  During the Civil War, more Confederate soldiers died at Chicago’s Camp Douglas than on any battlefield ...

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  Behind the Lines | Catalonia’s 9/11

  The roots of Catalonia’s modern push for independence from Spain lie in struggles that stretch back hundreds of years...

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  Artists | Father Figure

  Created some 70 years after the moment it captured, Emanuel Leutze’s painting became the most iconic image of the American Revolution...

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  Announcement | Thomas Fleming Award for Outstanding Military History Writing

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  The Marauder

  Germany built a ship that could outgun anything it couldn’t outrun. In 1940 it started hunting its prey...

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  War Stories | The Senior Citizen-Soldier

  In 1914 Caspar René Gregory, an internationally known biblical scholar, decided to go to war for his adopted homeland...

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  The Little Army That Won Big

  In 1792 President George Washington and Secretary of War Henry Knox invented a new kind of army to fight Indians in the west. They called it the Legion of the United States...

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  Weapons Check | Hand Mortar

  The hand mortar was a visually threatening but largely impractical shoulder-fired weapon used predominantly in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, though it also made its way to the newly founded United States. At sea, hand mortars were...