20th – 21st Century
Published: September 12, 2011 at 3:01 pm
October 2011 Vietnam magazine features stories on Moshe Dayan's 1966 tour of Vietnam, the 1971 May Day protest in Washington, A LRRPs team tapped for one last mission, and tanks at Kontum
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Panzer Corps Wehrmacht is a paean to the classic hex-based strategy games of old.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Michael Matheny looks at the evolution of U.S. military academy instruction in the operations discipline.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 11:30 am
Authors Graydon Tunstall and Richard DiNardo contribute toward our understanding of the World War I Eastern Front.
Allen Barra |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 4:24 pm
In 1914 Hollywood director Raoul Walsh
went to Mexico to film a revolution,
courtesy of General Pancho Villa
Jon Guttman |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 3:38 pm
The Exocet antiship missile wreaked havoc on British ships during the Falklands War and was central to the USS Stark controversy.
Jon Guttman |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 3:24 pm
The Stahlhelm, iconic helmet of German forces in both world wars, inspired many modern-day helmet designs, including the U.S. Kevlar field helmet.
Published: September 08, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Doug Waller reveals OSS founder "Wild Bill" Donovan, chosen across party lines by Franklin Roosevelt, and a man revered by his agents and reviled by the Pentagon.
Published: September 08, 2011 at 2:26 pm
The United States was an upstart nation in 1801 when it waged war against the Barbary pirates. With the United States now the foremost world power, should it take the fight to today's Somali pirates?…
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 1:08 pm
As faithful to reality as war films may be, they are fiction and not to be confused with the real-life events that inspired them.
HistoryNet staff |
Published: September 01, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Listing of special television programming to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America.
Harold Holzer |
Published: August 30, 2011 at 11:51 am
If we want the young to learn history, we must find appealing ways to teach it
The Lincoln restaurant offers this large white leather banquette as an inviting version of the president's perch at the Lincoln Memorial. Photo courtesy of …
Tim Rowland |
Published: August 30, 2011 at 11:50 am
Preservationists, residents, entrepreneurs and Civil War enthusiasts all want a stake in its legacy
At times it seems as if there isn't enough Gettysburg to go around, and almost 150 years after the nation-changing battle, the site remains a hotly …
Sue Haack, oral history |
Published: August 28, 2011 at 3:22 pm
At USARV HQ in 1969, Sue Haack scrambled for cover when the NVA breached the huge Long Binh base in February
Published: August 08, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Unique Insights into Storied Images
I immensely enjoyed your story "One Wild Ride for Yankee Papa 10" by Paul Gregoire (April). As a longtime historian of the Vietnam War, I've always been fascinated by Larry Burrows' legendary Life magazine photos …
Vietnam magazine |
Published: August 08, 2011 at 9:03 pm
The cost of bringing our wars home
Last April, in Benghazi, Libya, two photographers covering the brutal war boiling over in North Africa were killed in a mortar blast as they followed rebels repelling an attack by government forces. Tim …
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