How Stonewall Jackson’s Death Sites Became Tourist Attractions
Confederate veterans created shrines to memorialize the general and attract travelers' dollars
Globetrotting Botanist Introduced America to Plum Plant Specimens
Frank Meyer combed Asia for unknown fruits and crops that proved valuable to U.S. agriculture
Behind the Mind of Ho Chi Minh
How communist North Korean leader Ho Chi Minh developed his thoughts and theories on war
Ex-Rebel Cullen Baker Was a Post-War Murdering Madman
After the Civil War many dispirited Southerners rallied around Cullen Baker, a cold-blooded Arkansas killer they propped up as a defiant ex-Rebel who continued to champion the Lost Cause.
How an American helped the Chinese Revolution
Homer Lea’s dreams of military glory led him to a starring role in the Chinese revolution
Marines Were on the Front Lines the Night Lincoln Was Shot
Leathernecks witnessed the assassination and played a role in the roundup of the conspirators
Forgotten Casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis
How the shootdown of a U-2 spyplane over Cuba by a Soviet surface-to-air missile nearly led to nuclear war
How Navy Hero Dorie Miller’s Bravery Helped Fight Discrimination in the U.S. Military
Dorie Miller, the first American hero of World War II, helped clear the way for others by doing what he was not allowed to do
‘We Now Shot Them Like Dogs’
Long before he fought at the Alamo, Davy Crockett served as a Tennessee Volunteer in the 1813–14 war against Red Stick Creek Indians
Book Review: Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Mormon professor Thomas Alexander furnishes a surprisingly balanced picture of the controversial LDS leader
How Settler Abbie Gardner Survived a Massacre and Kidnapping
Taken hostage by an angry, starving Sioux tribe who slaughtered her family, Abbie Gardner stayed alive, and later made a career of telling her story of survival
Audiobook Review: ‘Big Fella’ Shows Babe Ruth’s Rise as Legend
Biographer Jane Leavy explores Babe Ruth's transformation from disposable child to baseball’s most valuable player and legend
How the Ottomans Collapsed the Byzantine Empire
The Turkish dynasty rose from the dying embers of another once great empire
Remembering the Resistance Leader Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
Witold Pilecki spent two and a half years trying to sabotage the infamous camp from within
Audiobook Review | Camelot’s End: Kennedy Versus Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party
Author Jon Ward shows how Carter and Kennedy let their individual ambitions shred their party rather than allow the other to lead it
