Travel
Thomas E. Sebrell |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Rebels ruled in Merry Old England.
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: November 17, 2010 at 5:43 pm
The Carter House, Lotz House and Carnton Plantation still stand as witnesses to the five bloody hours of fighting in the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864.
James Ullrich |
Published: March 22, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Tourism in Alsace trades on its vineyards and photogenic villages, not its complicated past. Reminders of the German occupation and the savage fighting of January 1945 are few, and they are rarely obvious, but they are here—and can take surprising forms.
Peter Bennett |
Published: February 02, 2010 at 12:35 pm
There are two Nurembergs. One is the intellectual and industrial landmark where Martin Behaim constructed the first terrestrial globe, Dürer mapped the stars, and Peter Henlein created the pocket watch. The other is the Nazi meeting place that gave its name to the bigoted laws that opened the way to the Holocaust, and where the crimes committed by Germany’s top officials were exposed to the world.
Guy Aceto |
Published: November 23, 2009 at 11:19 am
The signs of the Blitz's devastation in London are hard to find, but a walk through central London can still reveal the scars of those days; you just need to know where to look.
Gene Santoro |
Published: September 18, 2009 at 10:44 am
A son retraces his father's wartime steps, and Patton's, in Sicily.
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: September 01, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Though the immediacy of historical battles may be lost, the battlefields themselves remain as sobering evidence of the conflicts that once raged across them. Staff rides present opportunities to learn the historical context while experiencing those places firsthand.
Mark D. Van Ells |
Published: July 14, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Nanjing, China, is a beautiful city with an ugly history. Of all the atrocities committed during World War II, the 1937 Nanjing massacre stands out in its scope and brutality. Nanjing has changed a lot since 1937, but remnants of the old city remain.
Jay Wertz |
Published: July 07, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Four museums dedicated to presenting the life of Abraham Lincoln, each one different in character, are examined in detail, with photos.
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: June 01, 2009 at 6:06 pm
On April 10, 2009, an EF4 tornado tore through the Stones River National Battlefield Park near Murfreesboro, TN. Several weeks later, felled trees still testify to its path and pose a risk of greater damage from fire than from the tornado itself.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: May 06, 2009 at 2:38 pm
In late June 1940, the Channel Islands became the only part of Britain to be occupied by the Germans during the war.
Caitlin Newman |
Published: March 24, 2009 at 5:10 pm
The U-505 has a permanent home at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Recently renovated, it is the only German submarine in the United States, and one of only four World War II–era U-boats in the world on display.
Mark Potts |
Published: March 12, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Showing visitors around the worn teak deck of the retired battleship USS Missouri, tour guide Reggie Johnson looks out over Pearl Harbor and notes how peaceful it is. Even though it's still a major U.S. Navy base, the tone …
John C. Pursley |
Published: March 12, 2009 at 3:13 pm
When the navy ordered me to Guam last winter, I was less than enthusiastic about the prospect. It certainly didn't help that an officer I worked with who had spent some time in Guam in the 1960s referred to the …
Peter Bennett |
Published: March 12, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Conventional wisdom says that Warsaw was reduced to a pile of rubble during World War II. Only a few fragments of Warsaw’s brutal past remain, and they can be difficult to find: resistance battles and relentless Nazi bombing destroyed 85 percent of the city’s buildings, and most of what you see now has been either reconstructed or completely rebuilt. But a few remnants of the past exist at Pawiak Prison, Old Town, and Treblinka.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: March 12, 2009 at 3:12 pm
When Col. Paul Tibbets flew over Wendover Field in September 1944 in search of a remote, secure place where he could train the B-29 crews he handpicked to drop the atomic bomb, he looked down from 30,000 feet and declared it “perfect.” Sixty-four years later, the desert—and Wendover—is as stark as ever. Several bizarrely glitzy high-rise casinos have arisen on the Nevada side of town in the last couple of decades, but the sense of isolation and remoteness still dominates. That isolation has a silver lining: today Wendover Field is the best-preserved bomber training base from World War II.
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