Italy’s African Eagle
East African orphan Domenico Mondelli won the Italian Armed Forces Silver Medal for Military Valor in World War I
5 Lesser-Known Details About ‘Black Hawk Down’
What you might not know about the events preceding the filming of "Black Hawk Down"
An Economist Repudiates Slavery With Dollars and Sense Arguments
John Elliott Cairnes' devastating critique of Southern society sinks the Confederacy's campaign to bond with Britain
Women of War
From Cleopatra to Elizabeth and Njinga to Meir, strong women have proved every bit as resolute as their male counterparts
Book Review: The War Queens
Father-daughter authors Jonathan W. and Emily Anne Jordan profile 13 of history's most prominent female war leaders
Face-to-Face with Rome’s Emperors: Artist Reconstructs the Caesars
Military History’s exclusive interview sheds light on a groundbreaking digital history project
Abolitionist Brooklyn: A Sanctuary City Before Its Time
Separated from Southern-sympathizing Manhattan, Brooklyn had one of the largest and most politically aware Black communities in the U.S.
Pirates Prowl U.S. Waters With a New Weapon—A Navy License
U.S. Navy brought a situation on itself by granting its captains "letters of marque" to harass Spanish ships.
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
Every half century or so comes a book in a particular field or area of history that is monumental, that immediately becomes the authority on that subject.
Zephaniah Kingsley: Champion of Free Blacks
Roving merchant and slave trader approved of bondage system but saw freedmen as linchpin
Online Exclusive: Scruffy Florida Seafarers Made Their Fortunes Salvaging Shipwrecks
Long before it became Margaritaville, Key West was a boom town built on bad news
Martha Gellhorn: Writer, Warrior, Witness
Journalist and novelist railed against injustice, covered combat—and gave Ernest Hemingway the boot
Unassuming Chemist Was the CIA’s Poisoner in Chief
Sidney Gottlieb ran a workshop dedicated to assassination—and mind control
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Colonial New England Got Filthy Rich Off the Slave Trade
For a century and a half, wealthy northerners built their fortunes off sugar, rum, and human misery
March 2020 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about an Italian memento from World War II and kamikaze pilots
