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George H.W. Bush: His Life in Pictures

This week, as the country says farewell to its 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, we look back on his life in photographs....
George H.W. Bush: A Nation Bids Farewell

Hearse, not horses, took former president to lie in state in the Capitol...
Outer Limits of Armor

Eccentric solo inventor J. Walter Christie designed vehicles like no others. But his oddball designs influenced some of the 20th century’s best tanks. ...
Breaking the Gustav Line

In 1943 General Alphonse Juin and his Corps Expéditionnaire Français showed the Allies how to win a fight in the mountains...

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The Origins of Restraint

The medieval period’s faltering and largely unsuccessful steps to constrain the worst excesses of war were an important beginning....
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‘This is War’: The Human Wreckage of World War I

In 1915 Ellen La Motte volunteered to work in a hospital near the Western Front. Then she was censored for describing what she saw. In August 1916, as World War I slogged into its third year, the Atlantic Monthly published a story...
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How it Feels to Bomb Germany

When Andy Rooney died in 2011 at age 92, he was probably best known for his folksy, often cranky commentaries for the CBS television program 60 Minutes. (The 1,097th installment of “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney,” the show’s closing...
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Behind the Lines | Act of Faith

In 1943 some Italian prisoners of war on Scotland’s Orkney Islands decided to convert a pair of steel huts into their own place of worship....
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Artists | A Warrior’s Ledger Domain

Howling Wolf memorialized his exploits in vivid and colorful drawings—even while he was imprisoned by the U.S. government. LEDGER DRAWINGS–SO NAMED BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE ON PAGES OF OLD LEDGER or account books—flourished as...
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They Shot the War

An alternative newspaper for American GIs in Vietnam offered some raw glimpses into the conflict...
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From Ambulance Driver to Fighter Pilot

In 1914, as World War I erupted across Europe, James “Mac” McConnell knew he could no longer stay on the sidelines...
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How Great Britain’s Secret Disinformation Campaign Paid Off In World War I

In 1914, days after it declared war on Germany, Great Britain set up a secret propaganda bureau to help defeat the enemy...


	
	
		
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Artists | Percy Wyndham Lewis: “A Battery Shelled”

An avant-garde painter captures the power of technology and machine-age weaponry in the Great War...

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A Combat Photographer’s Initiation on Iwo Jima

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Behind the Lines: Iraq’s Queen Mother

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Behind the Lines: Olmsted at War

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Artists at War: George Bellows’s War Series

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Poetry | Of Soldiers and Generals

Li Bai (701–762) is widely regarded as China’s greatest poet. In 756 he became unofficial poet laureate to Prince Li Lin, the 16th of Emperor Xuanzong’s 30 sons, who tried to seize power in an unsuccessful uprising against the Tang dynasty. The prince, accused of trying to establish an independent kingdom, was executed; Li Bai...

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King William’s War: New England’s Mournful Decade

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Holding the Farm at Waterloo

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The Carpathian Winter War, 1915

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Big Red One Hits Easy Red

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George H.W. Bush: His Life in Pictures

George H.W. Bush: A Nation Bids Farewell

Outer Limits of Armor

Breaking the Gustav Line

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The Origins of Restraint

‘This is War’: The Human Wreckage of World War I

How it Feels to Bomb Germany

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They Shot the War

From Ambulance Driver to Fighter Pilot

How Great Britain’s Secret Disinformation Campaign Paid Off In World War I

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