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Portfolio: Images of War as Landscape

Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]

by Laurel M. Sheppard 6/12/20068/19/2022

In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.

Amid the British campaign against Baltimore the rockets’ red glare over Fort McHenry gave proof of American resolve.

Venturing into the Southwest frontier,
Spanish soldiers used the harquebus to awe unwelcoming Indians and bring down buffalo.

Political strategist Henry Kissinger attracted controversy for his actions during the Vietnam War. The debate continues after his death at age 100.

Following the Civil War trail of a killer — alongside his distant relative.

When greed for diamonds drew the British Empire into conflict with the Zulu Kingdom, soldiers at a tiny outpost waged a desperate fight to survive.

Chuck Mawhinney is the highest scoring sniper in the U.S. Marine Corps. A new book explores his Vietnam War experiences.

Project Manhigh took pilots to the edge of space.

From Van Buren to Trump, Many One-Term Presidents Have Done All They Could to Return to the White House.

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Thomasville celebrates its manufacturing history with a giant chair in the center of town.