Social History
Gregory Curtis |
Published: July 22, 2011 at 11:49 am
Texas has been a state since 1845. So why do Texans still believe they live in a separate country?
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: July 21, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Interview with Warren C. Hegg, national supervisor for the Keep the Spirit of '45 Alive! project, about the campaign to annually renew America's commitment to the principles that drove "the Greatest Generation."
Neal West |
Published: July 15, 2011 at 3:21 pm
A volunteer at the Manassas National Battlefield Park talks about portraying history while wearing 45 pounds of clothing and accoutrements in summer heat, the questions visitors ask, and why he does it.
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: July 14, 2011 at 8:32 am
The USO observes its 70th birthday in 2011. Elaine Rogers, president and CEO of the USO of Metropolitan Washington, has been with the organization for half its existence. In an exclusive interview, she talks about how the USO has evolved.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: June 30, 2011 at 9:41 am
I'm sitting in LaGuardia Airport at the moment, returning home from a trip to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. I'm proud to have a tie to the Academy: I taught there as a visiting professor during the 2008–09 …
Gene Santoro |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Ten years ago, retired teacher Hope Hamilton began a memoir about her two Italian uncles that turned into a groundbreaking book. Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign 1942–43 is the first comprehensive exploration …
Gene Santoro |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Visit the gathering grounds of Europe's spies and refugees.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Edward Steichen and his unit captured every side of naval life, from card games to storming beaches.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: May 31, 2011 at 10:35 am
Being a historian of World War II puts you in touch with the most interesting people. It is a rare day that my email does not contain a message from someone I've never met before asking me a factual question …
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: May 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm
A roundup of televised events for Memorial Day weekend 2011—and information on how the holiday began.
Published: May 23, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Tim Holbert, executive director of the American Veterans Center, answers three questions about The National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: May 23, 2011 at 9:55 am
Regular readers of this column will know that I don't really get excited about war movies. I read a lot, research a lot, and write a lot, and there are only so many hours in the day. In a publishing …
Jim Bradshaw |
Published: May 20, 2011 at 10:29 am
A Louisiana youth wages a personal war with the Yankees on his doorstep
Aleck Mouton was 10 years old, barefoot and Confederate to the core when he confronted Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks, who had just invaded the tiny south Louisiana …
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: May 16, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Will the 2011 Mississippi River floods endanger historic sites?
HistoryNet |
Published: April 13, 2011 at 5:09 pm
In a live Webcast Dr. Mark Bowles discusses his book 'Apollo of Aeronautics,' about how a group of NASA scientists tackled the 1970s' fuel crisis by developing new technologies with the potential to cut aircraft fuel consumption by 50 percent!
Robert M. Citino |
Published: April 08, 2011 at 10:05 am
People committed a lot of crimes in World War II. Some were huge, earth-shattering, and we are still living with the consequences. Atrocity. Murder. Mass murder. Others were…smaller.
Consider, if you will, the "crime" of eavesdropping.
There may indeed have …
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