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The Best Movies Never to Make It to Screens — and the Worst
In the wake of “Batgirl,” here’s the rich Hollywood tradition of films never been released by studios.
Tin Pan Alley: Where America’s Recording Industry Was Born
Where the makers of the American
songbook cut their tuneful teeth.
Life Inside a Japanese Prison Camp, in the Words of an American POW
Captured in the Philippines, Hector Polla survived the Bataan Death March to document the daily indignities of Cabanatuan.
Was the Making of ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’ Cursed?
Twentieth Century Fox wanted it to be “the most spectacular film ever made.” It may have been that — and more
A Worse Place Than Hell: A Review of the Union Debacle at Fredericksburg
John Matteson eschews history on the grand scale for a view shaped by the experiences of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Pelham, Walt Whitman, Arthur Fuller, and Louisa May Alcott
How Harlem Hellfighter James Reese Europe Became a Ragtime Legend
“He was our benefactor and inspiration,” Eubie Blake, the jazz great, once said of James Reese Europe, who wielded a baton, not a rifle, for much of World War I.
‘The 101st Airborne’s Hidden Battle at Tam Ky’ Review
Plenty of authors and publishers try to boost sales by larding book titles with […]
Objectively Terrible Military History Films that Got an Oscar Nod
Looking at you, ‘Pearl Harbor’
Robert Utley: Revisting Sitting Bull
In his new book about the Lakota leader and his people Utley continues to plumb the depths of Western history