History
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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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Did Churchill Redeem His Reputation After Gallipoli With the Invention of the Tank?
On the first day of the Allied offensive on the Somme River of northern France in July 1916 the British…
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How to Rob a Stagecoach — Courtesy of Black Bart
Stagecoach robbery in the Old West was a risky endeavor. Authorities thwarted, caught or killed most road agents within a…
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Requiem for a Forgotten West Texas Cow Town
Bad, bawdy and bankable during its 1880s heyday, Colorado City blossomed as one of the Lone Star State’s major cattle…
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