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‘Brave But Vain Valor’: Letter from the Battle of Malvern Hill
Lieutenant George W. Finley’s previously unpublished letter describes the ordeal he and the 14th […]
Jefferson Davis: More Than a Figurehead- Interview of Bertram Hayes-Davis
In his early 20s, Bertram Hayes-Davis was chosen to head the Davis Family Association, […]
6 Questions | Author Cate Lineberry
CATE LINEBERRY is the author of Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert […]
Time Travel: Still Fighting in Normandy
SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT on June 6, 1944, the sky above the Normandy market town […]
A Promise Betrayed: Reconstruction Policies Prevented Freedmen from Realizing the American Dream
On January 16, 1865, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15, which one admiring biographer lauded as “the single most revolutionary act in race relations in the Civil War.” The order promised thousands of freedmen 40-acre parcels of land located in a 30-mile wide swath from Charleston south along the Atlantic coast to the St. Johns River in Florida. But Southern-sympathetic Northern politicians and even Sherman himself would come to betray the famous order that gave freedmen “40 acres and a mule,” and former slaves would be forced off the land their families had worked for generations.
WWII Book Review: John C. Robinson
John C. Robinson: Father of the Tuskegee Airmen By Phillip Thomas Tucker. 329 pp. […]
True Fiction: The Caine Mutiny
Why a classic World War II story always matters. Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny […]
War Letters: A Navy Doctor Describes His Unusual Service in the Gobi Desert
IN 1943, 23-YEAR-OLD New Yorker Henry J. Heimlich left medical school to enlist in […]
The Reading List: Stanley McChrystal
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand (2010) […]