Sitting Ducks Over Normandy: A C-47 Pilot Remembers D-Day
A C-47 pilot gives his son a firsthand look at the dangerous missions he flew in flak-filled skies on D-Day and beyond.
Chamberlain and Wise: Enemies to the End
The Maine man's attempts at reconciliation were met with the Virginian's everlasting bitterness
Blundering Underlings Betrayed Burnside at Fredericksburg
Plenty of blame to go around for the defeat that cost the Union army 13,000 casualties
Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency
Military historian Mark Grimsley makes the startling assertion that the American civil rights movement was an insurgency.
‘For the Quality of Fighting Material, the World Is Our Judge’
An Iron Brigade captain recounts his regiment's epic Gettysburg fight
When the Soldier’s Toughest Battle Was Against Boredom
'I would rather go there and run the chances of being Shot than Stay here all Summer.'
McClellan: Did He Have the ‘Slows’ or a Supply Crisis?
Though most historians call him a crybaby, documents show Washington deliberately withheld needed matériel
Schuyler Hamilton, Scion of American Heroes, Is a Civil War ‘What If’
Alexander Hamilton's grandson was born to be a great general, but illness intervened
A Firsthand Account of a CIA Officer in Saigon
The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon.
Final Fiasco – The Fall of Saigon
Newly declassified documents and fresh insight from Frank Snepp, the CIA's chief analyst in Vietnam during 1975, present a revealing new picture of the chaotic final days of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, before enemy forces captured Saigon on April 30
For Your Civil War Buff’s Bucket List: Centralia, Mo.
When history travel becomes a reality, visit the small town where the border war got seriously ugly
Explore Antietam: A Bucolic Setting for a Bloody Day
A few of our favorite locations on the war's most gory single-day battlefield
How Civil War Weather Forecasting Changed Future Conflicts
Surgeons kept temperature, pressure, wind speed, and humidity records—but they didn't know what to do with the data
George Custer and the ‘Other’ 7th Cavalry
Before George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry made its mark out West, the 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was busy battling Plains Indians.
Looking for Pandemic Leadership? George Washington Is the Best Example
The first president's cool head and respect for science helped a young America survive smallpox and yellow fever
