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American History Magazine
Kateri Tekakwitha shunned marriage and expressed her faith with mortification...
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American History
Shocked by American racism, Caribbean immigrant pushed education and self-empowerment...
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American History Magazine
A reformed sinner's annotated Bible kicked off Protestant fundamentalism
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American History
The former French emperor's grandnephew Charles Bonaparte campaigned for good government and civil rights in America...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Gone With the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., 2006, $24.95). More than 20 years ago, after a few years’ stint teaching ninth grade U.S. history, I ran into a former student of mine who had...
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Military History Magazine
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs In the original Age of Empires III, Native American cultures made cameos, but weren’t included as playable civilizations. Ensemble Studios remedies this in the expansion pack Age of Empires III: The...
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Military History Magazine
Europa Universalis III by Paradox Interactive, 2007, $39.99. In Europa Universalis III, a player must blend exploration, trade, diplomacy and warfare to transform one of nearly 300 historically accurate countries into a global empire. Game...
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American History Magazine
Before plotting murder, the actor tried his hand at wildcatting...
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American History Magazine
A collection of peace tokens given to American Indians sets a whopping new record at auction. In the field of American numismatics, collector and dealer John J. Ford Jr. was in a class by himself. By the time he died at age 81 on June 7,...
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American History Magazine
When in 1964 Louisville-born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., converted to Islam, taking as his name Muhammad Ali, the 22-year-old heavyweight boxing champion was casting off a monicker made legendary by another flamboyant Kentucky fighter...
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American History Magazine
John Ledyard’s mother hoped her son would be a missionary to Native Americans, but the Connecticut-born Dartmouth dropout had a different mission: to see the world and all its peoples. ...
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America's Civil War Magazine
If John Sayles were ever to make a movie with a Civil War theme, it would probably look a lot like Pharaoh’s Army, director Robby Henson’s first feature length film that, sadly, went almost directly to DVD after a limited and...
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Vietnam Magazine
Icons and their makers The lasting influence of the Vietnam War cannot be overstated. It remains a touchstone not only for those who fought it and lived through it, but for the generations that have followed. The American experience in...
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Wild West Magazine
Charley Nebo had a knack for showing up where the action was—driving Longhorns for Charles Goodnight, tending cattle for John Chisum, hobnobbing with Billy the Kid and riding amid the Sioux at the time of Wounded Knee. In the Academy...
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World War II Magazine
A Japanese spy who admired the U.S. tried to prevent war—and later had a hand in punishing those responsible for it...
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American History magazine
Boston spinster who introduced kindergarten was an editor, publisher, and literary gadfly...
