When Lindbergh Tested His Spirit of St. Louis
Recently discovered photos of the Spirit of St. Louis test flights shed light on the “Lone Eagle’s” preparations for his celebrated transatlantic flight.
Thunderbolt Top Ace Contender in the Pacific War
Colonel Neel Kearby was among the top scorers in the Pacific when he pushed his luck too far while chasing Eddie Rickenbacker’s record.
Voyager’s Nonstop Around-the-World Adventure
On a flight fraught with peril, two pilots circumnavigated the globe in a spindly twin-boom airplane with only the fuel they carried on takeoff.
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.
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
Civil War’s Unstoppable ‘Captain Sally’ Committed Herself to the Wounded
Life of wealth, privilege didn’t keep one ‘angel’ from giving all for the wounded
