20th – 21st Century
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:25 am
Garner Palenske relates the little-known story of Wyatt and Josie Earp's post-Tombstone life in San Diego.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:43 pm
R. Michael Wilson releases the third volume in his Legal Executions After Statehood series.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Larry Wood relates 22 new tales of gunfights and other notorious incidents in his latest history of the Ozarks.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Allen and Patty Eckman found a new home in Rapid City, S.D., and the inspiration to drive their unique sculpting method.
Published: February 05, 2012 at 6:18 pm
In the February issue of Wild West, readers chime in on the Fort Worth Five photograph, Finn Burnett and the very much alive town of Columbia, Calif.
Published: January 30, 2012 at 12:03 pm
FEATURES:
John Singleton Mosby's Accidental Courage
By Glenn W. LaFantasie
Despite a runaway horse, the Gray Ghost triumphed at the village of Aldie in March 1863
What Wine Goes With Rat?
By Erika Mailman
Some Rebels drank fine wine while …
Tim and Elizabeth Rowland |
Published: January 12, 2012 at 11:12 am
Trail takes helm at Antietam Battlefield
Susan Trail was superintendent at Monocacy National Battlefield for eight years. Photograph courtesy of National Park Service.Monocacy National Battlefield Super-intendent Susan Trail has been selected to serve in the same capacity at Antietam …
Harold Holzer |
Published: January 12, 2012 at 11:09 am
Richard Nelson Current's 1958 biography of Abraham LIncoln shattered myths and inspired readers–including a certain Queens fifth-grader.
A few months ago I e-mailed my friend Marcia Current to ask if her husband felt strong enough to send his annual message …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:54 pm
In his new history The End, Ian Kershaw looks at the reasons behind Germany's stubborn resistance in 1944-45 when it was clear it had already lost the war.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Peter Hart, oral historian at London's Imperial War Museum, reveals a trove of research on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:29 pm
With Inferno, historian Max Hastings relates a broad, well-researched and gripping (if downbeat) account of World War II.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy unfolds around the June 1944 landings in northern France, offering both real-time and turn-based game play.
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Its Broomhandle grip and 10-round stripper clip made the Mauser C-96 a popular early semiautomatic pistol.
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Swiss citizen-soldiers used the multitool to open food tins and service their rifles in the field, but it has since become a coveted catalog bestseller.
Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:39 am
From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, by Randall Fuller (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America, by Davis S. Reynolds (Norton, 2010)
REVIEWED BY NAN …
Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:35 am
FEATURES:
The Loyalty of Silas Chandler
Was he a heroic black Confederate—or a slave forced to do his master's bidding?
By Myra Chandler Sampson and Kevin M. Levin
'Terrible Has Been the Storm'
William Sherman's men took out years of …
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