He Covered the Last Death of WWI. His Words Launched His Career

James M. Cain's fledging career as a journalist was interrupted when the United States entered World War I

Born Straddling Lines of Gender and Color, Pauli Murray Stitched Together a Life of Extraordinary Accomplishment

Murray became a key mid-20th century American figure who linked the legal equity crusades of the civil rights and feminist movements

‘What stays with you latest and deepest?’: PBS Series Examines the Civil War Through Poetry

Now in its third season, PBS’s “Poetry in America,” centers on one iconic American poem each episode

Gangsters of Capitalism Review: Was Smedley Butler the Embodiment of American Imperialism?

War is a racket, they say. Then by extension, what about capitalism?

In Vietnam, Americans Pioneered New Type of Counterinsurgency

Scholars examine the evolution of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice over the last two centuries, including in Vietnam

“Bombs Away” LeMay: America’s Unapologetic Champion of Waging Total War

From bomber general and self-professed war criminal to head of Strategic Air Command, Curtis LeMay divided America but always kept it safe.

We Know Who Shot William McKinley—But Who Shot The Final Photo of Him?

Many photographers working around Buffalo that awful Friday thought they had made the last image of William McKinley alive and well

He Was a New Union Lieutenant at Shiloh. The Horrors He Witnessed Left Scars That Never Healed.

A young Union lieutenant and his fellow Ohioans learn the horrors of war on Shiloh’s opening day

They ‘literally ate crow’: How Starving Confederate Troops Made It Home After the Civil War

After Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee's troops began their journeys home

Tactical Errors. Exhausted Doughboys. Here’s Why the Meuse-Argonne Offensive Was So Deadly.

Thanks to a tenacious fight put up by the untrained Americans, Montfaucon did fall on the 27th, albeit at a terrible cost.