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Vietnam Magazine
U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL, JAN. 1965–JAN. 1966; SEPT. 1972–FEB. 1973 We bombed Hanoi with B-52S for the first time in December 1972. It was called Operation Linebacker II and it was 11 days of bombing. I led the third attack. A lot of...
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America's Civil War Magazine
www.sonofthesouth.net www.harpweek.com During and after the Civil War, the publishers of Harper’s Weekly strove for editorial and illustrative excellence—famously printing the artwork of Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast—but the magazine...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War by Larry B. Maier and Joseph W. Stahl, McFarland & Co., Inc., 2008, $55 When the outcome of the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861 made it clear that the Civil War would be...
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America's Civil War Magazine
As an embattled Lincoln faced grim re-election prospects, Confederate leaders plotted with Copperhead Democrats in the North to poison the race. In early 1864, as the Civil War dragged into its fourth bloody year, the embattled Confederacy...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Irish-American Units in the Civil War by Thomas G. Rodgers, Osprey Publishing, 2008, $17.95 The Irish—both Protestant and Catholic, from poor laborers to established upper-middle class— were the largest wave of immigrants to settle in...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Yankees, Rebels, and perhaps a notorious assassin, repose together at Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery. On a bright October morning in downtown Baltimore, I find myself surrounded by tombstones. Like obstacles in a funhouse, the grave...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Fed up with Forrest Words cannot describe how appalled and disgusted I was to receive my January 2009 issue of America’s Civil War in today’s mail. Here it is, less than one week from the probable election of the first African-American...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Cold Mountain (2003) Directed by Anthony Minghella If the director of Cold Mountain, the late Anthony Minghella, had given his movie a subtitle, he might well have chosen “An Examination of the Transformation of Social and Political...
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America's Civil War Magazine
The Rebel and the Rose: James A. Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold by Wesley Millett and Gerald White, Cumberland House Publishing, 2008, $24.95 Battles, personalities, causes, politics, social...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn, Princeton University Press, 2008, $27.95 A Civil War book full of charts, graphs and tables, even when it is combined with intriguing human interest profiles...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Henry Brown took the extraordinary step of mailing himself to Philly. The baggage handlers ignored the “This Side Up With Care” label and rudely shoved the wooden box onto the steamship deck with those words exactly on the bottom. They...
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America's Civil War Magazine
John Yates Beall, John Wilkes Booth and the killing of a president. After John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln, theories—many born of hysteria— swept the nation. Some claimed that the assassination involved...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Thomas Ewing, Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General by Ronald D. Smith, University of Missouri Press, 2008, $44.95 The name of Ohioan Thomas Ewing Jr. crops up in many Civil War books, mostly in reference to events in Civil War Kansas...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Thomas J. Jackson contemplated mortality as John Brown met his death. CHARLES TOWN, VIRGINIA DECEMBER 2, 1859 The day was slightly overcast, as one observer wrote, “with a gentle haze in the atmosphere that softened without obscuring the...
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Aviation History Magazine
Civil Air Patrol: Missions for America for 65 Years by Drew Steketee, Turner Publishing Co., Paducah, Ky., 2007, $42.95 America’s Civil Air Patrol has long been one of aviation’s best-kept secrets. The only official auxiliary of the...
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Aviation History Magazine
The world’s first pressurized airliner took passenger transport to new heights. Anyone who has admired the polished aluminum perfection of the Pan American Airways Boeing 307 Udvar-Hazy Center would reject its early nickname, the...
