MHQ‘s Winter 2012 issue features a story about how the U.S. navy has reinvented itself—and the American sailor—over the past century. Here are recruiting posters that illustrate how the navy has pitched itself to would-be sailors from the Civil War to the Cold War. To buy a copy of the Winter issue or a subscription, click here. 
Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.
During the 1835–42 Second Seminole War and as Army scouts out West, these warriors from the South proved formidable.
William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) led a signal life, from his youthful exploits with the Pony Express and in service as a U.S. Army scout to his globetrotting days as a showman and international icon Buffalo Bill.
