Daily Quiz for December 10, 2019

In the 1870s, the Khedive Ismail, ruler of Egypt, hired veterans from this war to modernize his army....

Striking a Cold War Bargain

Producer Darryl F. Zanuck received assistance from several NATO countries to help recreate D-Day in his epic 1962 film, "The Longest Day"...

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American History Book Review: Through a Howling Wilderness

Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775 by Thomas A. Desjardin; St. Martin’s Press, 2006 A 600-mile March through wilderness. Whitewater rapids that smashed boats to smithereens. Swamps whose winding...

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The Grant Memorial

It was a perfect spring day, 60 degrees and dry. The gentle breeze snapped the colors to attention as strains of martial music carried over the city. Federal employees had the day off and swelled the enthusiastic crowd, which jostled for...

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Race to Save Nome

Eighty-one years ago, some of Alaska’s toughest mushers raced against time and the frozen wilderness along the Iditarod trails in a frantic attempt to save more than 1,400 men, women and children of Nome from the ravages of a diphtheria...

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Global Cooling

In the 19th century, winter ice, cut from the frozen ponds, lakes and rivers of the American North, was transported around the world, initiating a new age of cool. On September 10, 1833, the brig Tuscany docked in Calcutta and began...

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Sworn Enemies to be Good Friends

For nearly four years, Baroness Riedesel, wife of a German general, was shuttled around the colonies as part of the convention army—British and German soldiers captured at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777. The tale of her odyssey...

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New York City’s Forgotten Past

For more than 100 years, New Yorkers lavishly celebrated November 25 in commemoration of the end of British occupation and George Washington’s triumphal return in 1783. Today, however, those events and the celebrations they spawned have...

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American History Letter from the Editor- August 2006

Keeping Cool For most of the country, August is the long, hot month when the extreme heat of summer has a firm grip and most of us are searching for some cool relief. In today’s world, that relief is readily available in our homes,...

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Death of Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, had been on the trail for months. In December 1880, he had brought in the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid on charges of murdering a former county sheriff. The Kid was...

America's Civil War

America’s Civil War Film Review: Hollywood Creates a Convincing Hero in “Harriet”

Underground Railroad's "Moses" is portrayed with determination and courage...

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A Day to Remember: July 4, 1776

On Independence Day every year, millions of Americans turn out for myriad parades, public and backyard barbecues, concerts of patriotically stirring music and spectacular pyrotechnic displays, and they do so to celebrate the day on which...

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American History Letters from Readers- August 2006

WHAT’S IN A WORD? While reading the article about San Francisco’s 1906 quake in your April 2006 issue, I ran across a word I have never seen before, and cannot find in any dictionary! You write on P. 30, “the Bay Area had been shaken...

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Fisticuffs and Fury, a Look at the Army-Navy Rivalry

Cancelled by President Grover Cleveland. Restored by then Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt — the Army-Navy football game is in its 129th year. First playing on the Plain at West Point on November 29, 1890, the...

World War II

Battle of the Bulge: 687th Field Artillery Battalion’s Stand at the Crossroads...

The men of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion hadn’t had a warm meal in four days. Ever since the Germans launched an offensive in the Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg on December 16, 1944, the artillerymen —...

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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Liberia Was an Experiment Born From Fear and Ambition

Coalition of slaveholders and conservative abolitionists offered black Americans a land of 'liberty' ...

Daily Quiz for December 10, 2019

Striking a Cold War Bargain

American History Book Review: Through a Howling Wilderness

The Grant Memorial

Race to Save Nome

Global Cooling

Sworn Enemies to be Good Friends

New York City’s Forgotten Past

American History Letter from the Editor- August 2006

Death of Billy the Kid

America’s Civil War Film Review: Hollywood Creates a Convincing Hero in “Harriet”

A Day to Remember: July 4, 1776

American History Letters from Readers- August 2006

Fisticuffs and Fury, a Look at the Army-Navy Rivalry

Battle of the Bulge: 687th Field Artillery Battalion’s Stand at the Crossroads...

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