Forgotten Casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis
How the shootdown of a U-2 spyplane over Cuba by a Soviet surface-to-air missile nearly led to nuclear war
Marines Rack Up Kills in the Air
Marines racked up kills in the air as well as on the ground.
Andrew Roberts: Walking With Churchill
Roberts' new book, Churchill: Walking With Destiny, may be the best one-volume biography yet written about the wartime British PM
Armchair Historian – the Attempt to Kill Hitler | HistoryNet
Griffin Johnsen, the Armchair Historian, details Claus von Stauffenberg's failed 1944 attempt to bomb Adolf Hitler, take over Nazi Germany, and surrender to the Allies.
Sitting Ducks Over Normandy: A C-47 Pilot Remembers D-Day
A C-47 pilot gives his son a firsthand look at the dangerous missions he flew in flak-filled skies on D-Day and beyond.
Belle Da Costa Greene: Passing Fancy
A black activist's daughter reinvented herself on the other side of the color line
Bill Veeck, the P. T. Barnum of Baseball
Gleeful self-promoter pulled off more stunts than he could shake his wooden leg at
Swindling Sociopath: Alexander “Sandy” Keith
Alexander Keith, The unofficial “Confederate consul” in Nova Scotia, was a mass-murdering crook.
Alex Vraciu: The Indestructible WWII Ace
He shot down 19 Japanese planes. But he lost three Hellcats - they called him 'Grumman's best customer'
Review | ‘We Give Them Hell’
The Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run inspired 37-year old Wisconsin flour mill owner Henry Young to fight for the Union cause.
Your Help Wanted: Join the Effort to Transcribe African American Civil War Soldier Records
University of Chicago sociologist John Clegg is using the Union Army records of African-American men like Abram Garvin to learn about self-emancipation.
Dick Cole, 103, Last of the Doolittle Raiders
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942
The War In Their Words: I Am The Colonel’s Orderly
A soldier’s diary preserves the only known text of an Emory Upton speech
