Oceanic Outlaws Prowl U.S. Waters With a New Weapon—A License
U.S. Navy brought situation on itself by granting 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
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Liberia Was an Experiment Born From Fear and Ambition
Coalition of slaveholders and conservative abolitionists offered black Americans a land of 'liberty'
Vought F4U-7 Corsair
The carrier-operable Corsair came to dominate the Pacific skies during World War II.
Losing His Legs to a Landmine Changed Professor’s Life
After sharing Nobel Prize, Ken Rutherford wrote a history of Civil War explosive devices
Book Review: Appel
Joel Adam Struthers relates his rigorous training and exploits as a French Foreign Legionnaire in 1990s Africa
The Breaking of Harry Morant
In 1901 Lieutenant Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant went on a killing spree in South Africa after the death of his friend and comrade in arms
‘Desert Fox’ Offers Thrilling Battle Scenes—and No New Takes
The Rommel biography focuses more on the general's North Africa adventures than on fresh scholarship.
The Wages of War
In 1965 Rhodesia’s white-minority government went rogue, sparking a war whose reverberations have left a nation in anguish
Book Review: The Pirate World
Angus Konstam recounts the history of maritime outlawry as far back as the second millennium BC
