‘Our Prisoners’: A Journalist Reports on Andersonville
The atrocities, the Times said, “would make the blood of a cannibal run cold”
Two Reports Find that France Bears ‘serious and overwhelming’ Responsibility for Rwandan Genocide
Some 800,000 men, women, and children were killed in the 1994 genocide
The Yom Kippur War in Photos
An Arab attack on their holiest day was only the first surprise to befall the Israelis in 1973
The U.S. Army’s Year of ‘Grievous Blows’
Fifty years ago one of America’s most decorated generals shared his outrage with the press
Type 89 Heavy Grenade Discharger
The ‘knee mortar’ fired either a fragmentation grenade or a 50 mm shell that detonated on contact
How Communist Propaganda Efforts Helped this American POW in Vietnam
“I was looking for any way for my family to know I was alive," Dewey Wayne Waddell recalled
Book Review: The Stolen Pinkerton Reports of the Colonel Albert J. Fountain Murder Investigation
Editor David Thomas presents Vol. 6 of papers related to the shocking 1896 murders of New Mexico attorney Fountain and his young son
A Controversial Question: What was the communists’ objective at Khe Sanh in 1968?
Actually, North Vietnam had several motives, some rarely discussed in the literature of the war.
Meet the WWII Navy Vet Who Survived 26 Combat Crossings
“In rough seas, it was really a clambake, with ships all over the place," recalls Douglas Burgess, who served on destroyer escort USS Brough during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Planning for a Victorious South
'Colossal Ambitions' examines Confederate expectations for a place as a global power—with slavery
