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American History Magazine
Ayers argues that America should acknowledge the importance of emancipation with a national holiday....
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Military History Magazine
German submariner Peter Petersen survived three patrols aboard U-518. He missed the fourth—during which it was lost with all hands. The tide of war turned in the Atlantic Ocean during the summer of 1943. For three years, Germany’s ping...
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Military History Magazine
Miller O. Perry rejects claims that Lt. Col. Charles B. Smith and the troops of Task Force Smith failed to adequately stem the 1950 North Korean invasion of South Korea. On July 4, 1950, two U.S. Army officers stood on a scrubby hilltop...
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Military History Magazine
Kevin Patrick Muncer flew nocturnal bombing missions in Avro Lancasters until a Junkers Ju-88G made him a German prisoner. Born in London and raised in Kent, Kevin Patrick Muncer was working as an analytical chemist when World War II broke...
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Military History Magazine
Captain Kenneth Ruiz calls surviving three wars just ‘the luck of the draw.’ On August 8, 1942, newly commissioned Ensign Kenneth Ruiz drew cards with a fellow officer to determine who would have the privilege of manning a battle...
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Military History Magazine
Léon Degrelle was willing to put his convictions on the line on the Russian Front. Of the many European Fascist leaders who collaborated with the German forces that occupied their countries during World War II, Léon Joseph Marie Ignace...
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Military History Magazine
In World War II Jerzy Krzyzanowski resisted the Nazi occupation, only to be arrested by the Soviets. Germany invaded and quickly defeated Poland in 1939, but Polish units—including the clandestine or Home Army—continued to fight until...
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World War II
HistoryNet interviews Iwo Jima veteran Hershel "Woody" Williams, the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the Pacific War....
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Aviation History Magazine
After 53 missions on two continents, a B-25 pilot endured months of maltreatment in a Japanese prison camp. John Henry McCloskey Jr.’s fascination with flying began in 1930, when as an 8-year-old he witnessed a neighbor buzzing the skies...
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Wild West Magazine
Trying to separate fact from fiction in the life of the legendary Calamity Jane is about as difficult as trying to prospect for gold on the Staked Plains or trying to walk straight when drunk as a skunk. All James D. McLaird wanted to do...
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Wild West Magazine
Since his retirement as a special agent with the U.S. Treasury Department and criminal justice instructor at a Texas community college, Bob Alexander has been cranking out entertaining and informative books about Wild West badge wearers...
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Wild West Magazine
Anyone who loves to read about or research the American West appreciates The New Encyclopedia of the American West, edited by Howard R. Lamar, a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he has taught since 1949 and was...
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Wild West Magazine
Louis Kraft likes to write about 19th-century Army officers who accepted American Indians as human beings and tried to understand them; Lieutenant Charles Gatewood and Major Edward Wynkoop fill the bill. Indeed they are two of the more...
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Wild West Magazine
John Henry “Doc” Holliday has emerged as more than just a sidekick to Wyatt Earp, thanks to the 1990s movies Tombstone and Wyatt Earp and a string of Earp-Holliday-Tombstone books that followed. But, while the dentist-turned gambler...
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World War II Magazine
As a young lieutenant, Rolf Hertenstein was at the leading edge of Army Group South’s advance during the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa. After the successful campaign against France, Rolf Hertenstein and his comrades in the 4th...
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World War II Magazine
Dodging a torrent of fire from Red Army soldiers to deliver dispatches from Adolf Hitler’s Berlin bunker, Hitler Youth member Armin Lehmann witnessed the dying days of the only world he had ever known. Raised on the lies of their elders,...
