Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing
In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war
This Famous Bathtub Has Met its Waterloo
Imagine the poor PFC tasked with lugging around Napoleon’s personal bathtub
Oliver Otis Howard: Westward, Christian Soldier
General O.O. Howard found grace and lost an arm during the Civil War before heading west to confront Apache leader Cochise and Nez Perce Chief Joseph
Letter From Wild West — June 2021
For bad or worse, ‘outlaws’ come to mind at the mention of Indian Territory
On-Screen Review: News of the World
In this Paul Greengrass film Tom Hanks plays a town crier who escorts a lost waif through wild and woolly Reconstruction-era Texas
What Happened to ‘Operation Vengeance’ Wingman Raymond K. Hine?
Pilots involved in the mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto reported seeing Hine’s left engine smoking, but no one saw him go down.
The Soviet Union’s Top-Secret Operation to Repatriate Downed U.S. Airmen
Hundreds of American fliers ended up stranded in Siberia—creating a conundrum for the Soviets, who were not at war with nearby Japan.
Marketing Abraham Lincoln to the Masses
The President’s faithful secretaries led a crusade to preserve his place in history
Vendetta: Athens vs. Sicily
When Athens sent a massive invasion fleet against Syracuse, a merciless Sicilian vendetta followed
Breaking the Blockade Review: The Bahamas During the Civil War
During its heyday, blockade running was a systematic and, for many, a lucrative operation run by a cartel of industrious merchant princes
‘Does This Signed Nazi Flag Belong in a Museum?’
Curators at The National World War II Museum solve readers’ artifact mysteries.
The Tensions of a Controversial War Explode at Kent State University on May 4, 1970
The Kent State shootings reconsidered
The First Chinese-American Officer in Marine Corps History Saved 8,000 Lives at the ‘Frozen Chosin’
“Perhaps the Chinese are all fatalists," said Kurt Chew-Een Lee. "I never expected to survive the war. So I was adamant that my death be honorable, be spectacular"
Hot Issues in 1918 Midterm Election Roil U.S. Politics Today
Wilson's war was almost over and women's suffrage was near, but there was a pandemic and the country was polarized over Prohibition
George Washington’s Last Hours, Remembered As Heroic, Were Certainly Hellish
Despite intense suffering, the former president faced death with courage and strength of character
Book Review: Jim Bridger
Jerry Enzler has plumbed every available archive to deliver the definitive biography of the legendary mountain man
