Oliver Otis Howard: Westward, Christian Soldier
General O.O. Howard found grace and lost an arm during the Civil War before heading west to confront Apache leader Cochise and Nez Perce Chief Joseph
June 2021 Readers’ Letters
Readers share dispatches about a disputed tintype of Pat Garrett, Garrett’s murder and Billy the Kid
Letter From Wild West — June 2021
For bad or worse, ‘outlaws’ come to mind at the mention of Indian Territory
On-Screen Review: News of the World
In this Paul Greengrass film Tom Hanks plays a town crier who escorts a lost waif through wild and woolly Reconstruction-era Texas
The Soviet Union’s Top-Secret Operation to Repatriate Downed U.S. Airmen
Hundreds of American fliers ended up stranded in Siberia—creating a conundrum for the Soviets, who were not at war with nearby Japan.
Marketing Abraham Lincoln to the Masses
The President’s faithful secretaries led a crusade to preserve his place in history
Last Words of A Marine’s Friend and Hero: ‘I’m Going to Get that Gun’
Marine 1st Lt. Lee Roy Herron saved the lives of numerous Marines before being killed during a Feb. 22, 1969 battle in the A Shau Valley
Vendetta: Athens vs. Sicily
When Athens sent a massive invasion fleet against Syracuse, a merciless Sicilian vendetta followed
Jenna Coleman Set to Play Joan Bright, the Real-Life Inspiration Behind Miss Moneypenny, in Upcoming WWII Series ‘The War Rooms’
Working as an administrative officer, Bright helped to organize several wartime and postwar conferences including Tehran and Yalta
He Went from NYC to Vietnam to Deliver Beer During a War — Now His Story is Coming to the Big Screen
Raise your glasses, because this is going to be a fun one.
Breaking the Blockade Review: The Bahamas During the Civil War
During its heyday, blockade running was a systematic and, for many, a lucrative operation run by a cartel of industrious merchant princes
Lessons Learned from the Battle of Hattin, 118
King Guy of Jerusalem ignored his not only Crusader history, but also his own, leading to a catastrophic defeat
‘Does This Signed Nazi Flag Belong in a Museum?’
Curators at The National World War II Museum solve readers’ artifact mysteries.
The Tensions of a Controversial War Explode at Kent State University on May 4, 1970
The Kent State shootings reconsidered
Revolt in the Ranks: The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Colonel Lewis E. Goodier Sr.
In 1915 a group of disgruntled airmen in the U.S. Signal Corps declared war on their superiors. The consequences were far reaching
