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Wild West Magazine
John Langellier looks at the iconic "Trapdoor" Springfield rifle, mainstay of the U.S. Army for more than three decades...
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Wild West Magazine
Lawman George Bartlett operated a trading post on Wounded Knee Creek, was present during the 1890 clash and went on to become a sharpshooting showman...
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Wild West Magazine
Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment: The U.S. Army on the Western Frontier, 1880-1892 by Douglas C. McChristian, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2007, two-volume set, $95. In a whopping sequel to his The U.S.Army in the West, 1870-1880:...
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Military History, MH Letters
Readers sound off about the Spanish Civil War and "fragging" (the murder of NCOs and officers) during the Vietnam War...
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Wild West Magazine
Acclaimed historian Robert Utley bluntly analyzes the careers of post–Civil War brigadier generals of the American West...
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World War II Magazine
Private Eddie Slovik, executed for desertion in 1945, has been memorialized in print and film as an unwitting sufferer of a cruel army. A deeper look, though, reveals a different story...
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MHQ Magazine
In 1877 Yellowstone National Park played host to the U.S. Army’s war against the Nez Perce. FOR MUCH OF ITS FIRST TWO CENTURIES THE UNITED STATES was bent on conquering the wilderness. Cities rose from bare ground, forests were shorn for...
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Military History Magazine
The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War by Brian McAllister Linn, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007, $27.95. In an era of extended warfare, the message of Brian McAllister Linn’s important new book is that there is no...
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Wild West Magazine
Retired National Park Service research historian Doug McChristian holds forth on the daily lives of frontier soldiers in the American West...
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Vietnam Magazine
The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes by Deborah Nelson, Basic Books, 2008, $26.95, www.warbehindme.com Once upon a time, there was an army that had been defeated in war. Reeling from the...
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MHQ Magazine
Eugene J. McCarthy was born in Watkins, Minnesota, in 1916. He became an economics professor after earning a graduate degree from the University of Minnesota, but during World War II he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a code...
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World War II Magazine
World War II army nurse Jane Boote talks about meeting John Doolittle Raiders, her first time deploying overseas, and what treating war casualties was like...
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Wild West Magazine
Readers share dispatches about author Peter Cozzens' perspective on the U.S. Army during the Indian wars...
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Wild West Magazine
Dr. James DeWolf had a notable career before riding with Custer to disaster in Montana in 1876...
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Aviation History Magazine
U.S. Army Aircraft 1908-1946: SC-AEF-AAS-AAC-AAF by James C. Fahey A severe disappointment for James Fahey turned out to benefit future historians. After medical problems disqualified him as a naval aviator, he served in the Merchant...
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World War II Magazine
For Hollywood movie star Lew Ayres, standing on pacifistic principles proved to be its own kind of fight ...
