We Know Who Shot William McKinley—But Who Shot The Final Photo of Him?
Many photographers working around Buffalo that awful Friday thought they had made the last image of William McKinley alive and well
Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee: ‘Do While You Can’
Charles McGee never thought much of flying until he started training at Tuskegee. When he finally left the U.S. Air Force, he had 30 years and three wars behind him.
‘The ‘Sneaken’est Man’ Book Review
Jim Harmon presents short stories of Montana people and places drawn from newspapers of yesteryear
Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘Beyond Vietnam’ Speech
On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a controversial antiwar speech opposing Riverside Church in New York City
When His Sister Came to Vietnam, This Door Gunner Left the Central Highlands For a Rare Family Reunion
Michael Kelley of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) had a brief respite from combat duty visiting his sister at Nha Trang near the South China Sea
This Indigenous Hero Won the Military Cross for Valor. His Son Would Star in the Lone Ranger
Alexander Smith's valor in World War I earned him the Military Cross. His son later became famous as Tonto to Clayton Moore’s Lone Ranger
‘Jo Mora’ Book Review
Peter Hiller profiles Jo Mora, the Uruguayan-born artist who left a legacy of art in various media across the American West
This German Aristocrat Beat a 12-Year Prison Sentence As a Nazi War Criminal
Alexander von Falkenhausen led Turks against the British, Chinese Nationalists against the Japanese, and conspired in Adolf Hitler’s assassination
Meet the Tech Visionary Who Started the U.S. Air Force, Built Phone Networks, and Invented Muzak
In the early 1900s, George Owen Squier saw the future better than anyone else in the U.S. Army
Army Pilot Recalls Fights in Vietnam—and With Pentagon
In 2008, Tallon was finally awarded a Purple Heart, which he had not received because his plane’s crash was officially characterized as a “non-hostile” accident
‘Augustine Chacón’ Book Review
David Grassé plumbs the records to separate the myth from facts about Arizona outlaw Augustine Chacón
Japan’s Trafalgar: The Battle of Tsushima Strait
In 1905 a Japanese admiral who fancied himself the reincarnation of Horatio Nelson waged a battle for the ages against a Russian fleet at Tsushima Strait
‘From the River to the Sea’ Book Review
John Sedgwick describes the race between railroad barons of the American West to reach the Pacific Coast with tracks
‘Richard III’ Book Review
MIchael Hicks presents a revealing biography of Richard III, last Yorkist king of England, amid the Wars of the Roses
60 Years Ago, The First U.S. Soldier Was Killed in Ground Combat in Vietnam
Spc. 4 James T. Davis lost his life tracking down an enemy signal in Vietnam
A Marine Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice and Why He Did It
Dickey knew exactly what he was doing and what it would cost him when he unhesitatingly leapt on grenades, as Lang proves through eyewitness accounts
