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Book Reviews: Churchill Biography and Hitler Analysis
Churchill, flaws and all; the political origins of Hitler; and the strange friendship of Mussolini and the German dictator
American History Magazine
Audiobook Review| Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
A look into a stenographer's trial transcript, capturing how Abraham Lincoln’s sharp wit and folksy manner saved a client from the noose.
Aviation History
Jesse L. Brown: The U.S. Navy’s First Black Aviator
The son of a sharecropper, Mississippi-born Jesse Leeroy Brown would do whatever it took to become a pilot and break the navy's color barrier.
Front Page Hero
Jane Addams, Secular Saint, Scorned During WWI
Progressive heroine's reputation suffered when she tried to sell pacifism as patriotism
Front Page Hero
America’s Bonaparte Had His Own Code–Reform
Emperor's grandnephew campaigned for good government and civil rights
HistoryNet
Ho Chi Minh’s Failed Versailles Gambit
Vietnamese communist leader thought he could win Wilson's backing against the French
Battle Films
Battle Films: Rommel (2012)
In 2012 film Rommel, the myth of the famous German general as an apolitical figure falls apart
Battle Films
Battle Films: The Desert Fox
"Battle Films"columnist Mark Grimsley takes on the movie that made the myth behind German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Book Reviews
Book Review: A Dangerous Woman by Susan Ronald
Wealth, night clubs, decadent balls. Author Susan Gould write how socialite Florence Gould had it all—and did anything to keep it when war came to France.
Black History
Book Review: Glory in Their Spirit By Sandra M. Bolzenius
In "Glory in Their Spirit," author Sandra M. Bolzenius uncovers the tensions surrounding the military regarding race and sex during World War II.
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Many Waters to Cross
On Jan. 2, 1777, within days of crossing the Delaware River, George Washington’s bedraggled Army again faced the enemy—this time across a New Jersey creek
Homepage Featured Top Stories
The Man Who Started World War II
Alfred Naujocks was an SS expert in dirty deeds done well, charged with making Poland appear a villain
Mag: World War II Featured
Book Review: Asperger’s Children by Edith Sheffer
Historian Edith Sheffer’s delves into the horrors of Spiegelgrund, a children's hospital where a doctor named Hans Asperger focused his efforts on children whose “deviant behavior”mfailed to conform to the Nazi Aryan ideology.
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Eliza Powel: George Washington’s Other Woman
First president's muse and intellectual equal was a Philadelphia socialite