How Aging Confederate Veterans Kept Wartime Memories Alive
A half-century after the war, old soldiers banded together to share their stories and honor their comrades
Rambling: Past and Present Come Alive in Annual Resaca Reenactment
Civil War buffs descend on small Georgia town for part-country fair, part history lesson
World War II’s Hunted Hero
Charles Sweeny aimed to recruit American pilots to fly for France in World War II. The FBI tried to stop him.
Online Exclusive: The Pilgrim Story Is Mostly Stuffing
One of the main crops at Plimoth Plantation was historical fiction
Census Czar Herman Hollerith’s Trials and Tabulations
Self-taught tinkerer used punch-card machine that created textile patterns to create an early computer
Top 10 Best and Worst Aviation Movies
Aviation History's Top 10 Best Aviation Movies include Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines, Hell's Angels, The Dam Busters, and The Bridges at Toko-Ri; the Top 10 Worst include Top Gun, Snakes on a Plane, and Pearl Harbor.
October 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about the Big Die-Up, Billy the Kid and Richard (not Robert) Boone
Letter From Wild West — October 2019
Though raised a sickly child in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt became a substantial man of the West
Book Review: The Cowboy President
It was in the Dakota Territory, writes Michael Blake, that Roosevelt learned to carry a big stick as well as the importance of conservation
Book Review: The Making of Tombstone
John Farkis provides absorbing insight into the creation of a film many critics rank among the best Westerns
Book Review: The First Americans
Author Jay Wertz covers the grand sweep of American Indian history from prehistory to the present, with rich illustrations
Movie Review: Deadwood
Newcomers will find the same charm in the language of Deadwood that fans found in the TV show more than a decade ago
China’s Lost Women in the Far West
Chinese women in the American West often worked as slaves or prostitutes and rarely got a square deal from either men or the law
Audiobook Review | How America’s Most Favorite Sandwich Got Its Start
A history of the hamburger—its conception, its various incarnations and how it transformed the American dining experience
David Jonason Roams and Renders the American West
The painter depicts wherever he roams out West—from the mountains to the deserts to geysers white with foam
Ardent but Unorthodox Mohawk Woman Became America’s First Native Saint
Kateri Tekakwitha shunned marriage and expressed her faith with mortification
