Victor Lundy is best known as a modernist architect. But a set of his old sketchbooks offers a vivid visual diary of life—and death—in wartime
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An Angel in Dien Bien Phu’s Hell
On a mission to evacuate wounded, a young flight nurse finds herself trapped, as the Viet Minh close in to capture the last French outpost.
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On the Crossbow War’s Front Lines
In 1962, the CIA, U.S. Special Forces and Vietnam’s Montagnard tribes were breaking new […]
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Pioneering Female Reporter Nellie Bly Went Undercover and Around the World in 72 days
Journalism, grit and ambition took pioneering female reporter Nellie Bly undercover and then around the world in 72 days.
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Vietnam News- December 2011
Flamboyant Military and Political Leader of the Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky, Dies […]
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Why Were the Japanese So Cruel in World War II?
Before and during World War II, Japanese forces murdered millions of civilians and prisoners of war. Why?
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Soviet Women at War
Eager to prove themselves, women served the Red Army as nurses, medics, cooks and […]
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Valley of Despair: The hardships of war strained Southern patriotism
In the months that followed the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederacy saw its capacities weakening dramatically. In every community and in every regiment, people asked how much more they could, should, or would give to an imperiled cause.
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The War On The Net: civilwardc.org
Civil War Washington ranks among the best resources available online for U.S. Civil War scholars, writers, and teachers. Despite its narrow geographic focus, the site’s collaborative nature results in a digital collection that touches on literature, journalism, medicine, labor, military affairs, politics, geography, digital humanities, genealogy, science, and of course history.
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Artists | Eyewitness to Horror
Published 35 years after his death, Goya’s The Disasters of War has etched the cruel suffering of war into our collective memory.