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Daily Quiz for April 13, 2016
A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stand Watie is the only Native American to achieve this.
In Pennsylvania, They Love General Meade (and His Steed)
MY WIFE AND I ARE DRIVING in northeast Philadelphia, trying to find our way […]
The Generals Speak, Should We Listen?: 10 Confederate Memoirs
Walk into the Library of Congress in Washington, with its mammoth collection of more […]
War of the Dragons: The Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979
China determined that Vietnam, heady with its victory in the American War, must be […]
There Goes the South: The Days Before Lincoln’s Inauguration
President-elect Abraham Lincoln remained strangely silent as threats of secession became a reality during […]
The Revolution of 1800: The Presidential Election that Tested the United States
Less than 20 years after the last guns of the War of Independence fell […]
The Fire in the Rear: Clement Vallandigham and the Copperheads
An outspoken war critic raised the Union establishment’s hackles and put Abraham Lincoln on […]
The Hairy Nation Goes to War: Davis County, Iowa in the Civil War
Shots fired in South Carolina are heard all the way in Iowa, and local […]
Fire For Effect: Who’s the Boss?
Most alternate scenarios are operational. What if, in May 1940, Hitler doesn’t halt his Panzers short of Dunkirk? What if, in August 1941, the Wehrmacht, instead of wheeling south into Ukraine, keeps driving to Moscow?