American History
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:49 pm
The U.S. government passed the Homestead Act 150 years ago to prompt Americans to settle the Great Plains. Would you have jumped at the chance to claim your own "free" land in a remote, difficult environment where Indian attacks were …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:38 pm
In his latest book, Dakota Dawn, Gregory Michno tracks the bloody first week of the 1862 Minnesota Sioux Uprising.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt, offers a sometimes agonizingly realistic look at life on the Oregon Trail of the 1840s.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Winston Groom's new book, Kearny's March, is the story of a year (1846-47) as related through the personal vignettes of several historic figures.
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
Gregory Lalire |
Published: December 01, 2011 at 5:57 pm
In 2012 Americans will mark the 150th anniversary of the Homestead Act, while New Mexicans and Arizonans throw their respective 100th birthday parties.
Published: November 30, 2011 at 5:15 pm
The February 2012 issue of American History features articles on George Washington's moral journey, a secret hideaway for Congress, our troubled history of lynching and the U.S. citizenship test.
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.
Published: November 30, 2011 at 5:07 pm
The father of our country grows up in Woody Holton's article "George Washington's Moral Metamorphosis."
Don Hirst |
Published: November 21, 2011 at 3:39 pm
An Army photographer's story of triumph and tragedy behind one of the war's most iconic images from Tet
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The USS Grayback, whose missions during and after the Vietnam War remain classified, was the only U.S. Navy submarine capable of covertly delivering Marines or Special Forces to an enemy shore
David T. Zabecki |
Published: November 14, 2011 at 3:52 pm
A young cadet's first, and lasting, brush with war's reality
Eliot A. Cohen |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:15 pm
The famous forerunners of American special-ops forces battle the French in 1758.
Karl Marlantes |
Published: October 21, 2011 at 2:17 pm
In an excerpt from What It Is Like to Go to War, author Karl Marlantes lays out his rationale for lying in Vietnam
Debra Newbold |
Published: October 21, 2011 at 1:40 pm
A new traveling exhibit that looks back at the tumultuous year of 1968 debuts Oct. 14, 2011 at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Minn.
"The 1968 Exhibit" traces the escalating war in Vietnam and its growing opposition, the …
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