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Caved Inn at Vicksburg
Three eyewitness accounts describe what it was like for Vicksburg civilians to burrow underground […]
Military History Book Review: The Day of Battle
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 by Rick Atkinson, […]
Can We Trust the Ancient Texts?
Some were found lying alive with their thighs and hams cut, laying bare their […]
Crushed on the Horns of Hattin
In 1187 Saladin’s Muslim armies drove the Latin Crusaders from the Middle East. On […]
Wild West Book Review: Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier
Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials by […]
Interview: Fountains’ Disappearance Still Attracts Attention
The murder case lives on in Corey Recko’s book. Attorney Albert J. Fountain and […]
The Hanging of Patrick O’Connor and Frontier Justice
Before Iowa was Iowa, it was a land without law enforcement or courts, but […]
Wild West Book Review: A Terrible Glory
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—the Last Great Battle of the American […]
Wild Bill Hickok’s Last Gunfight
Wild Bill got his man as usual but accidentally killed a friend during an 1871 Abilene shootout that played havoc with the legendary pistoleer’s mental state.