20th – 21st Century
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:08 pm
In his new book Vengeance Is Mine, Bill Neal delves into the passions behind the Boyce-Sneed Feud in early 20th century Amarillo.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Buck Taylor, former cast member of the TV series Gunsmoke, now creates historically themed paintings and posters for various rodeos.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 12:41 pm
California-based author Lee Silva has earned his reputation as a Western historian, Old West firearms expert and Wyatt Earp authority.
R.K. DeArment |
Published: December 01, 2011 at 7:27 pm
With a Western gunfighter’s looks and the nickname and nerve to match, Richard "Two-Gun" Hart enforced Prohibition even as his notorious lawbreaking brother made national headlines.
Published: December 01, 2011 at 6:31 pm
In the February issue of Wild West, readers bend our ears about Old West writer Eugene Field, big-screen look-alikes, Smith & Wesson No. 3s, Arizona gun laws, and a long-forgotten gunfight in Bodie, Calif.
Peter Carlson |
Published: November 30, 2011 at 5:08 pm
During the Cold War, the U.S. Congress had its own secret fallout shelter tucked away in the West Virginia hills.
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Although designed to combat massed Soviet armored formations, the Patton tank was an invaluable weapon for infantry support and defending firebases
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Based on the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, the EC-121 Warning Star carried the long-range and height-finding radars required to provide coverage and warning to U.S. aircraft operating over North Vietnam
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Rodric Braithwaite considers the parallels between the Soviet war in Afghanistan and modern-day conflicts in that long-turbulent region.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:36 pm
John Prados takes a fresh look at the 1944 Normandy campaign, considering the impact of Ultra intercepts and the way the German Wehrmacht performed.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Red Orchestra 2 is the most realistic first-person shooter to hit the market in the past decade.
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 5:24 pm
The Type 95 boasted three times the range of its U.S. Navy counterpart, was faster than the electrically driven Mark 18, and it left no wake.
Stanley Weintraub |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 5:14 pm
In August 1945 MacArthur arrived in postwar Japan, tasked with the job of rebuilding that defeated nation
Published: November 04, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Compare the strategic objective of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (to compel the United States to sue for peace) with that of the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorist attacks (to provoke a global religious war).…
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 04, 2011 at 5:39 pm
A samurai's daisho comprised the long katana fighting sword and the shorter wakizashi for close combat or, if need be, ritual suicide.
Published: November 04, 2011 at 3:29 pm
In his new book The Storm of War, Cambridge-educated historian Andrew Roberts takes another look at German competence and Russian sacrifice in World War II.
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