12 Movies With Airplanes in Starring Roles
Before computer-generated images, aviation films had real airplanes and real aviators at the controls.
This Academy Award-Winning War Film Enraged the Nazis
"All Quiet on the Western Front" highlighted the futility of war, whereas the Nazis revered violent struggle
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.
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
Selling Scandalous Sex as Sober Cinema
Howard W. "Kroger" Babb made a bundle hawking a movie melodrama about a girl who gets in trouble
A Fresh Take on Familiar Landings
Author Giles Milton focuses on Operation Overlord's overlooked.
Hulu’s ‘Catch-22’ Reboot is a Theater of the Absurd
Joseph Heller's famous war novel is vividly recreated over the course of six episodes in a new streaming miniseries.
‘Desert Fox’ Offers Thrilling Battle Scenes—and No New Takes
The Rommel biography focuses more on the general's North Africa adventures than on fresh scholarship.
How the Civil War Gave Birth to Modern Journalism
Technological changes and lust for battle news made way for mass-circulation print media
Madame Fourcade Was One of World War II’s Most Daring Female Spies
The courageous socialite played a key role in the French Resistance—yet received little credit for her efforts.
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: How Americans Made English a Bodacious New Language
Settlers created fresh, colorful words and phrases to describe their land and life
Cecile W. Morgan’s Memories on Canvas
The Alabama artist draws on vintage photos to paint cowboy Bill Pickett and other Westerners
American West Historian Will Bagley Wins Big With Owen Wister Award
The overland trails expert has earned Western Writers of America’s 2019 award for lifetime contributions to the genre
Insidious Inspiration: How Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis
American statutes barring interracial sex and marriage were model for anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
Precision Bass: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Instrumental Soul
Leo Fender's rhythmic innovation powered the music of a generation
Hubert Harrison: Harlem’s ‘Black Socrates’
Shocked by American racism, Caribbean immigrant pushed education and self-empowerment
