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Aviation History
A C-47 pilot gives his son a firsthand look at the dangerous missions he flew in flak-filled skies on D-Day and beyond....
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Military History, MH Interviews
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942...
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World War II Magazine
Fighter pilot Colonel Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson, 96, is a triple ace, credited with 16.25 enemy kills in the skies over Europe....
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Wild West Magazine
Marshall on the Little Bighorn. Born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, Joseph M. Marshall III is a Lakota craftsman, lecturer, actor, primitive archer, historical consultant and author of nine books, with more on the way. Two of...
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American History Magazine
Forget what you’ve learned about Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock. Stunning new archaeological evidence reveals that the real roots of American independence and the entrepreneurial spirit which drove it were thriving in Virginia’s Tidewater....
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American History Magazine
What issues divided the Federalists and the Republicans in 1800? The biggest one was war with France. France and England were fighting each other all over the world, and both countries with their vast navies were attacking our...
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American History Magazine
On July 5, 1851, a Mexican woman became the only woman ever hanged for murder in the state of California. She was charged with killing Frederick Cannon, a white man, in the gold mining town of Downieville. The incident has become part of...
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World War II Magazine
Seventeen years after The Civil War copped dozens of awards, including two Emmys and a Peabody, Ken Burns has gone back to war—World War II—with The War. Born in Brooklyn, the son of a cultural anthropologist, Burns dreamed of becoming...
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World War II Magazine
As the eighteenth chief of staff of the United States Air Force, Gen. T. Michael Moseley has been a high-profile proponent of revolutionary technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles (“I love UAVs!” he once declared to a group of...
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Vietnam Magazine
A daring and legendary warrior in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, who forged the American commando forces, still has plenty to say about the war in Vietnam and the men who fought it. Colonel Lewis Lee Millett is a combat-decorated veteran of...
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World War II Magazine
Conversation with General Sam Wilson, a member of Merrill's Marauders during WWII...
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Vietnam Magazine
Colonel Gordon R. Roberts, a Vietnam and Iraq war veteran and only Medal of Honor recipient on active duty, speaks out on soldiers and soldiering. Three days after graduating from high school in May 1968, 17-year-old Gordon R. Roberts...
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America's Civil War Magazine
In 1976, when Cricket Bauer Pohanka was at an age when many of her classmates couldn’t wait for history class to end, she was enthralled by the festivities and programs surrounding the nation’s bicentennial celebration. Even though she...
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Wild West Magazine
The WWHA has broadened its Western horizons. In the world of research about outlaws and lawmen of the Old West, there has been division in recent years. Some individuals belonged to the National Association of Outlaw and Lawman History...
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American History Magazine
Jay Winik’s latest book, Upheaval: America and the Birth of The Great the Modern World, 1788-1800 (HarperCollins), is an ambitious history of three disparate yet surprisingly interconnected societies in an age of revolution: America,...
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American History Magazine
For 45 years, controversy has swirled around President John F. Kennedy’s assassination: Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone, or was Kennedy the target of some vast conspiracy? Robert Stone discusses his new film, Oswald’s Ghost, which...
