HISTORY
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Abraham Lincoln’s Embrace of Foreign-Born Fighters
In the earliest days of Union enlistment in New York City, anyone willing to volunteer was welcome at recruitment offices—including…
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Mike Sadler, The Last Member of the Original S.A.S, Dies at 103
Maj. Mike Sadler, one of the first recruits and the last surviving member of Britain’s Special Air Service (S.A.S.), died…
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Meet the Heroes Who Delivered Aid and Comforted the Dying on the Battlefields of World War I
In the agony of trench warfare and no man’s land, the sound of a skitter and a wet nose —…
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America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again
Henry Clay, nicknamed the Star of the West and the Great Compromiser, served as Speaker of the U.S. House of…
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These Fighting ‘Mighty Midgets’ Packed Big Guns
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater in World War II culminated with a grueling, bloody amphibious campaign to capture one Japanese-held seabound stronghold…
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This German Baroness Dodged Cannonballs During the American Revolution
Frederika Charlotte Louise, Baroness Riedesel zu Eisenbach—better known as Baroness von Riedesel—was the wife of Baron Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, a…
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Build your own version of Flying Tiger ace R.T. Smith’s shark-mouthed Curtiss P-40
Probably no other aircraft from World War II are as easily recognized as the shark-mouthed Curtiss P-40s flown by the…
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Letters from the Sheridan Field Hospital
A gloomy and tragic scene—one with which the inhabitants of the oft-contested city of Winchester, Va., were unfortunately all too familiar—unfolded…
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