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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.

Colorado City, which boomed in the 1880s thanks to the railroad and abundant water, was no stranger to violence.

The campaign to seize the Dodecanese Islands mattered little in the long run.

Learn how to defend against an overwhelming attack from a brilliant U.S. tank commander.

The flail as we know it would probably have knocked out any knight using it. Where did it come from?

After years of guerilla and light infantry tactics, North Vietnam resorted to conventional warfare with heavy emphasis on tanks.

A new study reveals the fine details of Roman swordplay.

A short history of men who won elections while they were behind bars.

A new book gives travelers the opportunity to become bandits on the historic Outlaw Trail, minus the time behind bars.

John G. Bradley is still haunted by his inability to prevent a lethal attack on a U.S. merchant ship days before war’s end.

The massive textile mills of Lowell, Mass., signaled a change for American labor.