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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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Civil War Times Magazine
The Lincoln administration turned a blind eye to the First Amendment in the interest of national security. The New York Tribune’s Horace Greeley privately thought Lincoln timid in the run-up to First Bull Run. But if Lincoln’s...
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Military History Magazine
Histories of World War II are seldom complete without mention of the Italian Fascist Grand Council’s vote of no confidence against Benito Mussolini on July 25, 1943, or the assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler by some of his army...
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American History Magazine
How Mary Mallon, an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid, became one of the most dangerous women in America...
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Military History Magazine
When they brought him to Washington, his speech and memory gone and his identity a mystery, the pieces of the puzzle seemingly began to fall into place with the arrival of a wife whose soldier-husband was still missing. The Civil War was...
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Military History Magazine
In October 1906, a man in a Prussian captain’s uniform arrested the mayor and treasurer of Köpenick, outside Berlin, for “irregularities.” He demanded to see the town’s funds, which were duly handed over to him. He then marched...
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Military History Magazine
There was a time, a moment, brief though it was, when, thanks to a World War I veteran’s exposure to phosgene gas, the two opposing catchers in a major league baseball game were calling the balls and strikes thrown by their own pitchers....
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Military History Magazine
From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games by Ed Halter, Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 2006, $16.95. Ed Halter’s book observes the relationship between war and video games. Where video games are a relatively recent phenomenon,...
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Aviation History Magazine
Volunteering at an aviation museum can be more rewarding than you ever thought. Last year I backed into volunteering at the National Air and Space Museum’s new Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington-Dulles International Airport, only 20...
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Aviation History Magazine
In his lengthy career as barnstormer, military pilot and path-finding entrepreneur, Basil Rowe was an unsung stalwart of the aviation industry. Born on February 10, 1896, in the settlement of Fox Hollow in the midst of New York’s...
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Aviation History Magazine
They flew machines that were little more than sticks, wire and fabric, and in the words of South Dakota artist John Wilson, had “very short careers.” That’s the way he describes the daring fellow perched on the wing of a Curtiss JN-4...
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Aviation History Magazine
American Women and Flight Since 1940 by Deborah G. Douglas, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004, $29.95. Should women be pilots? Deborah G. Douglas poses this question in American Women and Flight Since 1940. The larger question...
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Aviation History Magazine
More than just collectibles, the toy airplanes in your attic may reflect aviation history as well as your own youthful passions. After our mom’s death, my sister and I spent some time preparing the “old homestead” for sale. Imagine...
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Aviation History Magazine
Airmail pilot Jack Knight’s heroic flight in a day-and-night ‘grand relay’ brought him instant celebrity in 1921. Jack Knight had nearly reached Laramie, Wyoming, when his Liberty engine suddenly coughed and died. The February wind...
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Wild West Magazine
The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories From Old San Francisco by Kevin J. Mullen, Noir Publications, Novato, Calif., 2005, $16.95 paperback. Police stories are often interesting in themselves, but the ones that Kevin Mullen tells are...
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Wild West Magazine
Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show by Louis S.Warren, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005, $30. Buffalo Bill will never be over the hill. As long as people fondly gaze back at the hills and plains of the 19th-century...
