• America's Civil War

    Sherman in Balance

    Civil war–era biographies that can double as doorstops seem to be in vogue again. Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, and now William T. Sherman, the Union’s second most famous general and, arguably, its first modern one. More than...

  • HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Mag: Military History Featured, Military History, Military History Magazine

    Remembering the Siege of Leningrad, Lifted 77 Years Ago

    Nazi Germany planned the horrors of Leningrad with more premeditated malice than many historians have previously realized...

  • Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero

    The Saint of Auschwitz

    Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to replace a Polish soldier from certain death in Auschwitz...

  • Aviation History

    Surprising Story of the Forgotten Soviet Space Shuttle

    The Buran spaceplane never lived up to its potential after it was overcome by political and economic forces beyond its designers’ control....

  • HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero

    Texas Tough: The Rough and Ready William “Howdy” Martin

    William “Howdy” Martin exemplified the officers who kept rough hewn soldiers ready to fight ...

  • Aviation History Magazine

    Why Convair’s Speedy 990 Lost Out to the Boeing 707

    Convair’s 880 and 990 airliners demonstrated that faster wasn’t always better when it came to passenger transport....

  • HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero

    Excerpt from ‘A Shot in the Moonlight’ by Ben Montgomery

    "A Shot in the Moonlight" by Ben Montgomery is the true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow South....

  • MHQ Magazine

    Now See Here

    A gallery of devices designed to aid the naked eye....

  • American History

    American History Review: Tecumseh and the Prophet

    Charismatic Shawnee brothers lead Indian resistance to American expansion in early years of the republic...

  • HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero

    Eddie Robinson, Who Just Turned 100, Helped Make Military Baseball ‘The Show’...

    Looking back, the 1948 Cleveland Indians World Series champion credits the Navy for instilling the discipline that helped him build a 65-year-old career in the game he loves...

  • HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Vietnam, Vietnam Magazine, Vietnam War

    Movie Review: “Danger Close” Brings Home Reality of Vietnam War

    This film deservedly joins the ranks of exceptionally well-made, authentically re-created Vietnam War movies...

  • Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Mag: Military History Featured, Mag: Military History Hero, Military History, Military History Magazine

    Russian Museum Honors Women War Heroes with Art Exhibit

    Russia’s largest military history museum launched an art exhibit to honor female fighters from World War II ...

  • Aviation History

    Building Wildcat Wade’s Spitfire Vb

    As the Battle of Britain raged, Reichsmarchall Hermann Göring reportedly asked Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland if there was anything he needed to make the Nazi campaign go more smoothly. Major Galland is said to have responded, “Give me a...

  • Wild West

    February 2021 Readers’ Letters

    Readers share dispatches about Billy the Kid's colorized tintype, Custer subordinate Frederick Benteen, transcontinental railroads, the Dakotas and horses...

  • HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero

    National WWI Museum Opens ‘Why Keep That?’ Exhibit

    Those old ticket stubs from Britney Spears’ 2001 Oops!… I Did It Again Tour that you held onto for absolutely no reason may end up in a museum one day. At least that’s the gist of The National WWI Museum and Memorial’s latest...

  • Aviation History, Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories

    The P-47 “Jug” Hit the Germans Hard in the Air and on...

    World War II saw three U.S. Army Air Forces fighters of consequence: everybody’s favorite, the North American P-51; the remarkable Lockheed P-38; and the absurdly large Republic P-47. ...

1 2 … 1,419 Next »

VIDEOS

  • HistoryNet Video

    VIDEO: Battery H Of The 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery At Gettysburg

    Civil War Times Editor Dana Shoaf shares the story of how Battery H of the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery found itself in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg. ...

  • Vietnam Magazine

    Dan Bullock: The youngest American killed in the Vietnam War

    Pfc. Dan Bullock died at age 15 in 1969 and efforts to recognize the young African-American Marine continue and are highlighted in this Military Times documentary. (Rodney Bryant and Daniel Woolfolk/Military Times)...

FEATURED

  • America's Civil War

    Sherman in Balance

    Civil war–era biographies that can double as doorstops seem to be in vogue again. Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, and now William T. Sherman, the Union’s second most famous general and, arguably, its first modern one. More than...

  • HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Mag: Military History Featured, Military History, Military History Magazine

    Remembering the Siege of Leningrad, Lifted 77 Years Ago

    Nazi Germany planned the horrors of Leningrad with more premeditated malice than many historians have previously realized...

Subscribe and save!

Get inside articles from the world's premier publisher of history magazines. Our line of historical magazines includes America's Civil War, American History, Aviation History, Civil War Times, Military History, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Vietnam, Wild West and World War II.

  • SUBSCRIPTIONS

    • American History

    • America’s Civil War

    • Aviation History

    • Civil War Times

    • Military History

    • MHQ

    • Vietnam

    • Wild West

    • World War I

  • SECTIONS

    • Today In History

    • Interviews

    • People & Personalities

    • Book Reviews

    • Ask Mr. History

    • Videos

  • TOPICS

    • Civil War

    • Black History

    • Women’s History

    • Vietnam War

    • Art & Literature

    • Military History

  • ABOUT US

    • Subscribe to Our Newsletters

    • What Is Historynet.com?

    • Contact Us

    • Advertise With Us

    • HistoryNet Privacy Policy

    • HistoryNet Terms of Service

    • Work for HistoryNet

    • Cookie Preferences


HistoryNet.com is brought to you by Historynet LLC, the world's largest publisher of history magazines. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines.

© 2021 HistoryNet