Daily Quiz for November 20, 2019

Chuck Yeager named his P-51 Mustang fighter plane this....

Washington Came ThisClose to Executing an Innocent Man

The American commander was pressured to hang a Redcoat officer in retaliation for a patriot's murder...

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75 Years After His Last Mission, WWII Bomber Pilot Recounts ‘Sheer Terror’...

In 1943, John Luckadoo was just a wide-eyed 21-year-old lieutenant when he manned the controls and took to the sky on his first bombing mission as a co-pilot of a famed B-17 Flying Fortress. Aeronautical advancements meant that a B-17...

American History

Hard Truth About Disarmament: Diplomacy Means Diddly

Iran will build a bomb when it's ready, despite treaty restrictions...

Civil War Times

Rambling: Suburban Sprawl Is Destroying the Stones River Battlefield

An Afghan War veteran laments the disappearance of hallowed landscape...

Civil War Times

Insight: A Historian Explains How Republicans Misjudged the Threat of Secession

David M. Potter's scholarship explains how the North saw Southern rhetoric as 'crying wolf'...

American History

Designing New Ways to Tell America’s Story

New Smithsonian museum director see her task as making democracy relevant ...

America's Civil War

Civil War Veterans’ Shocking Souvenirs—Bullets in Their Bodies

Decades after soldiers were wounded, bits of lead showed up in X-rays, or simply appeared...

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Branko Lustig, Holocaust Survivor and Famed Producer of Schindler’s List, Dies at...

Branko Lustig, famed producer of Schindler’s List, Sophie’s Choice, and Gladiator has died at the age of 87....

Vietnam Magazine

The Controversial ‘Architect of the Vietnam War’

A new biography highlights General Maxwell Taylor's influential role in U.S. strategy...

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A Child Soldier in the Lebanese Civil War

Yussef Bazzi was just 15 years old when he joined one of the militia groups fighting in the Lebanese Civil War....

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This city was Abraham Lincoln’s final resting place....

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This Hollywood star helped write the 1945 Potsdam Declaration which set the terms for the Japanese surrender....

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Daily Quiz for November 17, 2019

In 1760 the Board of Directors allowed the British East India Company to recruit these people for its army. ...

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Daily Quiz for November 16, 2019

In November 1862, the US nearly went to war with this country....

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A ‘Warrior Tradition’: Why Native Americans Continue Fighting for the Same Government...

Often lost in conversations surrounding military history — and most discussions on sociology — are the contributions of Native Americans....

Daily Quiz for November 20, 2019

Washington Came ThisClose to Executing an Innocent Man

75 Years After His Last Mission, WWII Bomber Pilot Recounts ‘Sheer Terror’...

Hard Truth About Disarmament: Diplomacy Means Diddly

Rambling: Suburban Sprawl Is Destroying the Stones River Battlefield

Insight: A Historian Explains How Republicans Misjudged the Threat of Secession

Designing New Ways to Tell America’s Story

Civil War Veterans’ Shocking Souvenirs—Bullets in Their Bodies

Branko Lustig, Holocaust Survivor and Famed Producer of Schindler’s List, Dies at...

The Controversial ‘Architect of the Vietnam War’

A Child Soldier in the Lebanese Civil War

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A ‘Warrior Tradition’: Why Native Americans Continue Fighting for the Same Government...

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