Social History
Gerald J. Prokopowicz |
Published: October 31, 2012 at 4:46 pm
A Lincoln scholar answers questions about the best and worst Abraham Lincoln movies and television programs - 'Star Trek' makes it into a 'best' category.
Gene Santoro |
Published: September 24, 2012 at 2:45 pm
"I know there are a lotta great stories out there about World War II," declares actor Joe Mantegna, "but I've got a pretty good one." The versatile Chicago-born star's resumé includes David Mamet films, The Simpsons, and Criminal Minds, his …
John D. Lukacs |
Published: September 14, 2012 at 10:13 am
The fading beams of my flashlight sweep the cavernous reinforced concrete laterals of Malinta Tunnel, barely illuminating my passage. Vintage wires and fixtures, timber trusses, and piles of rubble flare into focus in fleeting camera flashes, then vanish, frustratingly, in …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 13, 2012 at 10:54 am
The lifeline of the Wehrmacht’s multiple-front war was the European rail network, the same system that supported the killing of Jews during the Holocaust.
James Campbell |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:10 pm
To hold Saipan's bloody peak, the Bastard Battalion had to dig in
James Campbell |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:09 pm
As the U.S. Marine Corps fought Japanese troops for Saipan, one group of Marines there was battling on a different level.
Stuart D. Goldman |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Stuart D. Goldman shares his exploits at the battlefield of Nomonhan
Laurence Rees |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:05 pm
A Lithuanian Holocaust perpetrator explains why he murdered Jewish men, women, and children
Gene Santoro |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:02 pm
The Rape of Nanking
The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
By Iris Chang. 314 pp.
Basic, new edition 2012. $15.99.
This passionate book, recently reissued, is bristling with facts, figures, and the memories of witnesses. They put flesh on …
Karen Jensen |
Published: August 08, 2012 at 10:08 am
The soldier bear who went to war for Poland
Published: August 01, 2012 at 11:38 am
Letter From American History, October 2012, Columbus, Ind.
Vietnam magazine |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 1:53 pm
A new production on Broadway, The Columnist, which ran April through June 2012, examines the life of famed Cold War–era journalist Joseph Alsop (1910-89), whose op-ed column "Matter of Fact" ran in hundreds of newspapers for nearly 40 …
Charles R. Carr, oral history |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 1:09 pm
On his first helicopter assault, he jumped and ran the wrong way; his company was 30 ft. away, facing the other direction
Published: July 10, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Willis' skill as a Huey pilot in 1966 is surpassed by his humorous storytelling, incisive commentary on the Vietnam War, wars in general and the warriors who wage them
Published: July 02, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga by Jack Hurst
Peter Padfield |
Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Rudolf Hess’s peace mission to Britain was one of the war’s most astonishing events. Was the deputy führer a madman who acted alone, as many believe? Or did British Intelligence have a hand in his bizarre and fateful trip?
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