History
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A Pacifist Scribbled A Song When She Was Half-Asleep. It Became A Famous Union Battle March
The lyrics to America’s most famous marching song of the Civil War were written when their author was half-asleep and…
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When the British Held the Line in Korea
From a ridge in the Samichon Valley known as the “Hook” Lance Cpl. Mike Mogridge watched as British artillery rained…
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Bombs Burst in Air Over This Famed War of 1812 Fort
I shall sup tonight in Baltimore—or in Hell!” Thus spoke British Maj. Gen. Robert Ross, who commanded His Majesty George…
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A Forgotten ‘Trail of Tears’
.image-13793819 { max-height: 100%; –left: 47.63%; –top: 33.91%; } At times American history—and especially American Indian history—takes a dive down…
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Destroyer vs. U-boat in a Fight to the Death
In his new book Duel in the Deep (Naval Institute Press), author David Sears tells a story that he subtitles…
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Neither Gunfire Nor Darkness Deterred This Navy SEAL
Medal of Honor. (U.S. Navy) In December 2012, in the Laghman Province of eastern Afghanistan, Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator…
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These Western Lawmen Worked Both Sides of the Badge
It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their…
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This Ore-Rich Montana Ghost Town Is Now Ground Central for Mountain Bikers
In the hills 6 miles north of Three Forks, in south-central Montana, the Emerson Mining District had all the potential…
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Contractors in Bozeman Montana Robbed Both the Government and Its Indian Wards
One stipulation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie called for the establishment of a Crow agency running parallel to…
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Born into Slavery, Millie Ringold Became Queen of all She Surveyed
Millie Ringold had little time for either tumultuous Reconstruction-era politics or Americans’ changing attitudes toward the assimilation of freed slaves…
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