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Kohn family store, New Mexico Territory

How a Young Jewish Immigrant Widow Launched a Ranching Dynasty in New Mexico Territory

by Jim Winnerman3/10/20233/10/2023

After her husband’s untimely death, Yetta Kohn joined forces with her sons and daughter to run the family store, bank and ranch.

See the Real Rosie the Riveters at Work

by Tom Huntington3/8/20233/19/2023

Simone Segouin, Famed French Resistance Fighter, Dies at 97

by Claire Barrett2/24/20232/27/2023

Famed Confederate Diarist’s Home Up For Sale for $950,000

by Dana B. Shoaf2/9/20232/13/2023

The Day Miss America Almost Got Shot Down Over Vietnam

by Laurel Schaefer-Bozoukoff2/6/20232/7/2023

Battery Robinett, Corinth, Miss.

They Saw the Horrors of War: A Nurse and 3 Soldiers Describe Shiloh and Corinth

by Trace Brusco12/29/202212/29/2022

Tyler Perry To Direct Film on WWII’s Only All-Black, All-Female Unit

by Sarah Sicard12/21/20222/27/2023

Kate Winslet Set to Play Famed Vogue Model and Wartime Photographer Lee Miller

by Claire Barrett12/15/202212/16/2022

Photo of Barbara Robbins in South Vietnam, enjoys a day with friend Bill McDonald on a rented fishing boat off the coast of Nha Trang in fall 1964.

This Young Woman Was the First CIA Agent Killed in Vietnam

by Cathryn J. Prince12/13/202212/13/2022

Ellen Gibson Hobart

Who Was the US Army’s First Female Chaplain? Hint: It Was During the Civil War

by John P. Deeben12/8/20222/27/2023