On this day in 1932, in a crime that captured the attention of the entire nation, Charles Lindbergh III, the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family’s new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey. Lindbergh, who became an international celebrity when he flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, and his wife Anne discovered a ransom note demanding $50,000 in their son’s empty room. The kidnapper...
Selasa, 28 Februari 2017
Daily Quiz for March 1, 2017
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless campaigned to have this subject taught in high school and university in Canada.
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Of Course Holliday Used Guns, And on Occasion Knives, Too
But trying to determine Doc’s weapons of choice is no easy matter. After Val Kilmer electrified the Western film world with his portrayal of Doc Holliday in the 1993 movie Tombstone, Holliday re-enactors soon outnumbered Wyatt Earp re-enactors in the town of Tombstone. And at an Old West gunfighter seminar held there not long after …
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New Mexico’s Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park Preserves an Ancient Chacoan Pueblo
The ancients built their central great house in the 11th century. New Mexico’s celebrated Chaco Canyon, once the cultural center for the ancestral Puebloans (or Anasazis) of the Four Corners region, spawned several outlying colonies, the largest of which was at Salmon, about 45 miles to the north. Chaco Canyon is not to be missed, …
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Ghost Towns: Summitville, Colorado
In early 1870, so the story goes, southern Colorado rancher John Esmond and a companion went searching for a pair of runaway girls. When they found the runaways, they also found a rock ledge laced with gold. Esmond collected 50 pounds of ore and fled four claims but did no assessment work, rendering his claims …
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Five Haunted Western Saloons
Belly up to these bars for several rounds of ardent ‘spirits’. Armed only with a camera and his wits, fearless writer-photographer Bob Stinson likes to venture into Western places designated as haunted. For a portfolio in the October 2011 Wild West he photographed old hotels with ghostly guests. These three Octobers later Stinson focuses on …
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King Ranch: A Texas Dynasty
Riverboat captain Richard King got hold of some south Texas wilderness and with his equally determined wife built a ranch beyond their wildest dreams. The name fits the state of Texas like a crown— King Ranch. Over the course of its 150-plus years this fabled giant of a ranch has been a symbol of pride, …
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A Carte de Visite of Billy the Kid
Copied from the legendary tintype, this image sold at auction last June for $15,000. Biographers of William H. Bonney have long suspected that his tintype—the rarest, most sought-after and representative image of the Wild West—was commercialized after his death on July 14, 1881. Researchers scoured the country, but no contemporary copy of the tintype had …
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The Lawman from Laramie: Nathaniel Kimball Boswell
N.K. Boswell was a badge wearer extraordinaire in Wyoming Territory who managed to keep the peace without killing a man—or collecting too many taxes. Resembling more a biblical prophet than a frontier lawman, Nathaniel Kimball Boswell did not fit the popular image exemplified by his more celebrated badge-toting Western contemporaries “Wild Bill” Hickok, Bat Masterson …
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A Tale of Two Sadies: The Story of Wyatt Earp’s Wife
Although Josephine Sarah ‘Sadie’ Marcus is best known as Wyatt Earp’s loving companion of nearly 50 years, she led an adventuresome earlier life, at times using the name Sadie Mansfield. Sometime in the winter of 1882–83 Josephine Sarah “Sadie” Marcus crossed Market Street and stole into San Francisco’s Chinatown to reunite with her lover and …
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Hell on Wheels: When Roller-Skating Took Western Towns by Storm
It wasn’t just cattle that were rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. In September 1884 a Miles City, Montana Territory, newspaper printed a humorous account of drover Toll Caldwell’s encounter with “them little wagons”: I got one with a double cinch and another one to match it, and as soon as I straddled the layout, I could feel …
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Out of Vengeance or Plain Madness Felipe Espinosa Led a Murder Spree
In 1863 he and his brother terrorized central Colorado Territory. By March 1863 former gold prospector “Uncle Henry” Harkens had settled down to work the land at Saw Mill Gulch in Colorado Territory. His new life would be short-lived. After sunset on Wednesday, March 18, two of his friends found him dead in his cabin. …
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Senin, 27 Februari 2017
February 28, 1953: Watson and Crick discover chemical structure of DNA
On this day in 1953, Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.
Though DNA–short for deoxyribonucleic acid–was discovered in 1869, its crucial role in determining genetic inheritance wasn’t demonstrated until 1943. In the early 1950s, Watson and Crick were only two of many scientists working on figuring out the structure...
Video Review: Gunslingers, American Experience
Gunslingers, by American Heroes Channel, and American Experience: America’s Wild West by PBS Home Video, $39.99. Last summer American Heroes Channel (previously the Military Channel) unveiled the six-part original series Gunslingers. Each episode is an action-packed hour-long docudrama that forgoes such typical documentary techniques as an omniscient narrator and historical stills to instead paint history …
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Sharps Called Its Model 1874 ‘Old Reliable,’ And the Popular Rifle Lived Up to Its Name
Legend has it no two were ever manufactured exactly alike. Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson and Remington are the “Big Four” iconic gun makers of the Wild West, but Sharps isn’t far behind. Flayderman’s Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values expertly summarizes this fifth giant: Among the illustrious names in American firearms history …
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Lone Pine Film History Museum Makes the Reel West Feel Real
The late Jim Rogers made this paean to Westerns possible. It was in 1920, 17 years after the groundbreaking film The Great Train Robbery hit the big screen, that Hollywood discovered a perfect shooting location for Westerns and other films—the jumbled rocks of the Alabama Hills (backdropped by the snowcapped Sierra Nevada) near Lone Pine …
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Brandon (& Smuggler City), Montana
A couple of miles east of the village of Sheridan, Montana, in the foothills of the Tobacco Root range, the pavement ends at the site of a once bustling mining district named Brandon. Lacking a post office, it was never officially a town. After the 1863 gold rush in Alder Gulch, a dozen miles to …
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Daily Quiz for February 28, 2017
A chocolate bar melting in a scientist’s pocket lead to this invention in 1945.
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When did America Announce that it was Winning WWII?
At what point, during WWII, would newspaper or radio news have informed the rural mid-america population that the Allies were winning the war? ??? Dear Anonymous, From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor onward, American newspaper and radio journalists reported whatever events occurred to the best of their abilities, but tended to play …
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With Cornmeal and Creativity: Food on the Great Plains
Farmers on the Great Plains depended on fickle nature for their diet, and many a cook relied on cornmeal. In 1857 Nebraska Territory school- teacher Mollie Dorsey Sanford re- corded that her breakfast was corn- bread and salt pork; lunch was cold cornbread, wild greens and boiled pork; and supper was hoecakes (cornbread), cold greens …
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The Singer, the Banjoist, and the Bullets
Singer Fannie Garrettson was certainly upstaged in Deadwood the night a former lover hurled an ax and tried to climb onstage before her new husband shot him dead. Despite—or perhaps because of—her subsequent notoriety, Fannie Garrettson’s background is obscure. For one her name appears variously in period newspapers as Fannie or Fanny, and Garrettson or …
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Montana Territory Massacre: Blood on the Snow
Soldiers got the right tribe but the wrong band in 1870 when they attacked a Blackfeet camp on the Marias River in an atrocity largely forgotten today. In the bitterly cold dawn of January 23, 1870, a Piegan Blackfeet youth named Bear Head rose early and set out in search of his horses in the …
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Legend of the Apache Kid
When the trusted U.S. Army scout killed his father’s killer, that act of revenge set him on a course as a renegade whom no one could catch on either side of the Mexican border. Helge Ingstad crossed into Sonora, Mexico, on November 4, 1937, in search of the long- rumored “lost tribe” of Apaches of …
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Bold Sierra Nevada Miners Struck ‘Gold’ in Ski Racing
By the 1860s, with cash incentives, they pushed speed to the limit. The 19th-century longboard ski racers of Plumas and Sierra counties in California were the fastest mammals on the continent at the time. The swiftest horses were only half as fast. When snow conditions were right, these early two-legged speed demons rocketed downslope at …
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The Sheriff-Killing Maxwell Brothers Had Their Last Shootout in Nebraska
A four-man posse cornered them in a farmhouse near Grand Island. Hall County Sheriff Joseph Kilian was taking a break from his law-enforcement duties that cold fall night in Grand Island, Nebraska. It was Monday, November 7, 1881, and he was rehearsing with the orchestra he belonged to in preparation for a Saturday night dance. …
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After the Civil War, Father Adolf Bakanowski Led a Flock of Polish Farmers in Texas
Events sometimes required the Catholic priest to use his revolver. In 1860s Texas, gunfighters, horse thieves, bandits, Rangers, sheriffs, marshals and posses made headlines with their frontier exploits. Working mostly out of the public eye were the farmers, ranchers, businessmen, bankers and others who sought new life and opportunity in the Lone Star State. Among …
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Victorio Bolted From Hated San Carlos And Made War Back in New Mexico
The Apache chief proved his mettle in the Battle of Massacre Canyon. Fought on September 18, 1879, at the outset of a campaign known as Victorio’s War was a daylong clash since referred to as the Battle of Massacre Canyon. To stand among soldiers’ uniform white marble headstones on the site of this little-known but …
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Letters from Readers- Wild West December 2014
FORT DAVIS My attention was drawn to a photo on P. 64 of the August 2014 issue (see above) captioned as Fort Davis, Texas. Having served at Fort Davis National Historic Site during my National Park Service career, I was intrigued with what I thought was a view of the fort I had not previously …
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Letter from the Editor- Wild West December 2014
Fear not. I’m not writing here about Custer’s Last Stand. For one thing, this isn’t the June issue. For another, that Montana Territory clash is far from forgotten, thanks to Elizabeth Custer; George Custer’s friends and enemies; Crows on the nearby reservation; Lakotas and Cheyennes everywhere; a few Arapahos; illustrators, artists, book publishers, filmmakers, television …
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Pride before the Fall: Why Japan Failed at Tank Warfare
During World War II, Germany's tanks were deemed superior. But Japan was the first leading nation in armored warfare before the war. What changed?
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Minggu, 26 Februari 2017
February 27, 1827: New Orleanians take to the streets for Mardi Gras
On this day in 1827, a group of masked and costumed students dance through the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, marking the beginning of the city’s famous Mardi Gras celebrations.
The celebration of Carnival–or the weeks between Twelfth Night on January 6 and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Christian period of Lent–spread from Rome across Europe and later to the Americas. Nowhere in the United States is Carnival celebrated as grandly as in...
Daily Quiz for February 27, 2017
North America’s first oil rush occurred here in 1858.
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Sabtu, 25 Februari 2017
February 26, 1919: Two national parks preserved, 10 years apart
On this day in history, two national parks were established in the United States10 years apart–the Grand Canyon in 1919 and the Grand Tetons in 1929.
Located in northwestern Arizona, the Grand Canyon is the product of millions of years of excavation by the mighty Colorado River. The chasm is exceptionally deep, dropping more than a mile into the earth, and is 15 miles across at its widest point.The canyon is hometo more than 1,500 plant species and...
Daily Quiz for February 26, 2017
Recipient of the American Cancer Society’s highest award, Sword of Hope, this athlete was also voted Canadian of the Year in 1980 and 1981.
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Jumat, 24 Februari 2017
February 25, 1964: Clay knocks out Liston
On February 25, 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay shocks the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout. The dreaded Liston, who had twice demolished former champ Floyd Patterson in one round, was an 8-to-1 favorite. However, Clay predicted victory, boasting that he would “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” and knock out Liston in the eighth round. The fleet-footed and loquacious...
Daily Quiz for February 25, 2017
Thorold, Ontario was named in 1788 in honor of British Parliamentarian Sir John Thorold because of this political stand of his.
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Book Review: Remembering the Civil War
Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation Caroline E. Janney, University of North Carolina Press On the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913, former Confederate soldier and then-Virginia Governor William H. Mann declared, “There is no North, no South, no rebels, no Yanks.” Mann was repeating a shibboleth, familiar …
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Book Review: The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro
The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro: The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865 Robert M. Dunkerly, McFarland Unlike the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, which is remembered as one of the iconic moments in American history, the surrender of the Confederacy’s largest army three weeks later in North Carolina has rarely …
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Book Review: The Last Battle of Winchester
The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7- September 19, 1864 Scott C. Patchan, Savas Beatie When Phil Sheridan took command of Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley late in the summer of 1864, things (once again) looked glum for the Federal war effort in that region. …
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Book Review: A Field Guide to Gettysburg
A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler, UNC Press Union Lieutenant Frank Haskell was certain that a “comprehensive, complete” history of Gettysburg—a battle he called “greater than Waterloo”—would never be written. “A full account of the battle as it was,” he wrote, “will …
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Book Reviews: Gallant Creoles
Gallant Creoles: A History of the Donaldsonville Cannoniers Michael Marshall, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press Gallant Creoles: A History of the Donaldsonville Cannoniers Louisiana artillery unit that saw combat chronicles a in some of the war’s bloodiest engagements, including Gettysburg, Second Cold Harbor and the Siege of Petersburg. Michael Marshall points out the unit’s …
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Review: Tell It With Pride
Tell It With Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., through January 20, 2014; Massachusetts Historical Society, February 21–May 23, 2014 Since its 1897 unveiling in Boston, Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ memorial to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry has been hailed as a work …
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Book Review: Barksdale’s Charge
Barksdale’s Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 Phillip Thomas Tucker, Casemate On July 2, 1863, Brig. Gen. William Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade, part of Lafayette McLaws’ Division in James Longstreet’s First Corps, launched a ferocious assault late in the day against the Federal left at Gettysburg, where former congressman …
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‘Avowed Enemies of the Country’: Knights of the Golden Circle
Well-placed members of the Knights of the Golden Circle plotted to send Federal arms to the South. In the decade leading up to the Civil War, a fledgling group called the Knights of the Golden Circle joined forces with a well-establish Southern society known as the Order of the Lone Star. The Knights were the …
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$10 a Month: Men of the USCT
The men of the USCT would not tolerate second-rate status. IN NOVEMBER 1863, Sergeant William Walker of the 3rd South Carolina Infantry took dramatic action to express a grievance shared by thousands of African-American troops in the Union Army. The 23-year-old former slave “did unlawfully take command” of Company A and march the troops to …
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‘My Darling Nellie’: A Southern Soldier’s Letters Home
Mississippi attorney William Nugent is remembered as a brazen Southern radical thanks to one oft-quoted remark. “I feel that I would like to shoot a Yankee,” drawled a Southern voice in the opening episode of Ken Burns’ The Civil War. Few viewers, unfortunately, would remember he also admitted this “would not be in harmony with …
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‘Pencil in Hand’- Civil War Times February 2014
Captain Frederick Ranger of the 22nd New York Infantry sat down on November 30, 1862, and wrote, “It is so lonesome nowadays that although I wrote you a letter yesterday I can find nothing so pleasant as spending the time with you & this afternoon have again taken pencil in hand to commence a letter.” …
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The Supreme Partnership: Grant and Sherman
A reunited nation stands as Grant and Sherman’s enduring monument. Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman formed the most important and successful military partnership of the Civil War. As general in chief of United States armies and commander of what would now be called an army group, Grant and Sherman worked on a larger …
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Letters from Readers- Civil War Times February 2014
Return to Gettysburg I read with interest the article “Pilgrimage” in the December issue about the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, and enjoyed the interviews with descendants of veterans of the fight. From my mother’s family genealogy, I located at least four of my ancestors who fought at Gettysburg. Colonel Cullen A. Battle …
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FILM RECON: Hacksaw Ridge
SNAPSHOT: Andrew Garfield gives a powerful and moving performance as army medic Desmond Doss in a film that is brutally effective in its depictions of combat—but nearly derailed by a single-minded, oversimplified message. Desmond Doss was a remarkable figure in World War II history—a calm, devout Seventh-Day Adventist who refused to handle weapons because of …
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Book Reviews: Indestructible by John R. Bruning
Military historian Richard R. Muller reviews John R. Bruning's latest, "Indestructible," discussing the innovative mind of Paul Irvin "Pappy" Gunn and the difficulty of his family's internment in the Japanese-occupied Philippines.
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Kamis, 23 Februari 2017
Daily Quiz for February 24, 2017
Sir Sandford Fleming invented standard time zones and designed this.
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Book Review: The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns
The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns Bradley M. Gottfried, Savas Beatie This is the latest in Savas Beatie’s continuing series of map guides on important Civil War battles and campaigns. As with its predecessors in the series that examined the Battles of Antietam, Chickamauga, First Bull Run and Gettysburg, this volume …
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Book Review: Union Heartland
Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front During the Civil War Edited by Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson, Southern Illinois University Press Ever since Philip Shaw Paludan made home-front studies a viable genre in Civil War historiography, monographs and anthologies have focused on regions, states, gender, ethnicity, families, the economy and social change. The editors of …
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Book Review: Battle of Big Bethel
Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia J. Michael Cobb, Edward Hicks and Wythe Holt; Savas Beatie The “battle” near Big Bethel Church on June 10, 1861, is known, if it is known at all, primarily as a series of ephemeral firsts that provide fodder for quiz nights at Civil War …
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Book Review: Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades
Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades Susannah J. Ural, Osprey Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades words of Susannah Ural, “the story of how American families endured their nation’s is, in the bloodiest conflict.” The wide range implied in her topic gives Ural’s book emotional force: We hear the voice of every strata of American …
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Book Review: Glorious War
Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer Thom Hatch, St. Martin’s Press Little that transpired during George Custer’s West Point years foreshadowed the huge mark he would make on the Civil War and his military endeavors during the 10 years that followed. He was a prankster and an indifferent student who was …
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Book Review: Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination
Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford’s Theatre Thomas A. Bogar, Regnery History On the night of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, 46 actors, managers and stagehands worked at Ford’s Theatre. In the aftermath, those 46 were shocked, saddened, suspected and, in several cases, imprisoned. Thomas Bogar’s engrossing narrative …
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Book Review: Shiloh by Steven Woodworth
Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland Steven E. Woodworth, Praeger In crafting a relatively short volume, only 65,000 words, Steve Woodworth admits that he didn’t attempt to craft a full history of the fighting in Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland. Given his stellar analysis of the action in that crucial battle, however, …
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‘You promised that you would come home’: Letters Between a Husband and Wife
The letters between Madison Bowler and his wife Lizzie reflect the strains imposed by the war on thousands of families. In the spring of 1864, as Northerners and Southerners braced themselves for the opening of the conflict’s third year, Lizzie Bowler confided to her husband the loneliness that had plagued her since he had joined …
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Mosby’s Female Super Spy: Antonia Ford
Antonia Ford found the love of her life while she was incarcerated in the Old Capitol Prison. IT ACTUALLY WAS A DARK AND stormy night when Confederate Captain John Mosby and 29 of his Rangers rode quietly into Union-controlled Fairfax Court House, about 15 miles west of Washington, D.C., at 2 a.m. on March 8, …
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‘Cowards of the Army’: Straggling in the Civil War
Straggling became a major problem for both armies by 1862, as war-weary soldiers began opting out of fighting. IN THE WINTER OF 1861–62, “Stonewall” Jackson refused to grant furloughs to let his men rest, opting instead to drill them relentlessly as he prepared for his ambitious Romney Campaign in western Virginia. The campaign in January …
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May 2017 Table of Contents
The May 2017 issue features a cover story about Napoléon Bonaparte's Egyptian Expedition
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Cinematic Slavery
You pull open the door and walk into the movie theater’s lobby, greeted with the familiar smell of buttery popcorn. But there’s also something unfamiliar in the atmosphere—a feeling of dread. Maybe you haven’t read any reviews of 12 Years a Slave, but you probably know the story. A prosperous freeborn musician is lured to …
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Sky Above, Mud Below
Only those who endured the shrieking shells, stagnant water, creeping rats and rotting corpses could truly convey the horrors of World War I trench warfare
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Firing Joe Hooker
Just days before the Battle of Gettysburg, Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton tasked youthful Colonel James Hardie with telling “Fighting Joe” he was done. THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVE steamed through the night on a special mission to Frederick Md. Its crowded cab held an engineer, a fireman and a young Union officer, …
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Hometown Pride- Civil War Times April 2014
The sun was out, and the air was bright, clear and clean, but a bitter cold wind swept across Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg on November 23, 2013, during the rededication of the 1879 monument to Captain James H. Cooper’s Battery B, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (P. 15). That battery had been raised in Lawrence County, …
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Drawing the Curtain on Lincoln’s Assassination: Interview with Thomas A. Bogar
Nothing thrills a writer more than a new story, and theater scholar Thomas Bogar discovered one in the process of re searching his book Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford’s Theatre. While writing a previous book on American presidents and the theater, Bogar had become curious …
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Brigadier General Wilma Vaught (U.S. Air Force, Ret.)
Vaught helped spearhead creation of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
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Bold Rebel Venture in the Desert
General Sibley’s Southwestern conquest fell far short of his boasts. Twenty-five hundred Texans led by Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley moved up the Rio Grande Valley in the early months of 1862. Sibley hoped to establish a Confederate presence in the territory of New Mexico, gain access to the mineral wealth of Colorado and, if …
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Letters from Readers- Civil War Times April 2014
Reuben Reversed? When Reuben Nations’ flintlock musket was converted to percussion, was the hammer actually installed on the left side of the lock plate? Or did someone miss that the picture was reversed, which I strongly suspect is what happened. I know that sometimes a picture may look better reversed, but when there is clearly …
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Norse Knarr
The Norse knarr was a utilitarian version of the iconic Viking longship
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May 2017 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about the Iran Hostage Crisis, standing at attention and convicted World War II traitor Martin Monti
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Book Review: The Myth and Reality of German Warfare
Gerhard Gross studies German operational planning from the 1860s through the end of World War II
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Book Review: Valiant Ambition
Nathaniel Philbrick profiles Revolutionary War commanders George Washington and Benedict Arnold, their similarities and stark differences
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Book Review: Pax Romana
Adrian Goldsworthy examines the Pax Romana (27 BC–AD 180), a period of relative stability in the Roman empire
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Book Review: We March Against England
Robert Forczyk re-examines the threat Germany posed to Britain in the early years of World War II
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Book Review: God’s Wolf
Jeffrey Lee profiles Raynald of Châtillon, unapologetic French Crusader of the 12th century
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6 Questions | Author Hamilton Gregory
HAMILTON GREGORY is a best-selling textbook author and former professor at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. In 1968–69 he served as a U.S. Army intelligence agent in Vietnam, where he recruited and trained Southeast Asians and others for espionage missions inside Cambodia. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina. His latest book is McNamara’s Folly: The Use …
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Book Review: Treacherous Passage
Bill Mills revisits Germany's World War I machinations to prompt a Mexican invasion of the United States
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Book Review: No Victory in Valhalla
Ian Gardner tracks the 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR — a no less storied unit than their fellow "Band of Brothers"
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Rabu, 22 Februari 2017
February 23, 1945: U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima
During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest peak and most strategic position, and raise the U.S. flag. Marine photographer Louis Lowery was with them and recorded the event. American soldiers fighting for control of Suribachi’s slopes cheered the raising of the flag, and several hours later more Marines...
Book Review: The Civil War in the Border South
The Civil War in the Border South Christopher Phillips, Praeger Next to winning the war and preserving the Union, no issue occupied the thoughts of President Abraham Lincoln more than keeping Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri firmly within the United States. As Christopher Phillips illustrates, this was a difficult task. An inner civil war raged …
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Review: Texas Civil War Museum
Texas Civil War Museum 760 Jim Wright Freeway North, Fort Worth, Texas. texascivilwarmuseum.com The Texas Civil War Museum in Fort Worth opened its doors to the public in 2006, without too much fanfare and while facing a dose of skepticism. Fort Worth was already home to several major museums, so one more seemed like no …
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Daily Quiz for February 23, 2017
Canadian war hero, Billy Bishop, was awarded the Victoria Cross for this achievement.
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Book Review: Confederate General William Dorsey Pender
Confederate General William Dorsey Pender: The Hope of Glory Brian Steel Wills, LSU Press William Dorsey Pender’s reputation echoes across the century and a half since his death with hints of rich promise. After he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1854, his service as an artillery subaltern took him to the far Northwest, …
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Review: The Shriver House Museum
The Shriver House Museum 309 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, Pa. shriverhouse.org Opportunities abound to explore every aspect of the fighting in Gettysburg, but chances to learn what the borough’s 2,400 residents experienced are much rarer. Since 1996, the Shriver House Museum has provided an authentic setting for the story of one Gettysburg family, painstakingly restored as …
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Lincoln’s Tough Guy: Ward Hill Lamon
Ward Hill Lamon used brawn, bluster and brass knuckles to keep the president safe. Abraham Lincoln counted many acquaintances but precious few close to intimates. Among that handful of stalwart allies, big, bluff Ward Hill Lamon became and would always remain, in Lincoln’s own words, his “particular friend.” Though largely forgotten by history—until Salvador Litvak …
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‘A Little Body of Malcontents’
A new commander helped restore the Texas Brigade’s sagging morale. AS THE CAMPAIGN SEASON opened in 1864, Army of Northern Virginia was, in the apt words of historian J. Tracy Powers, “unlike the three previous years,… more a spirit of calm determination than one of restless confidence.” Historians have noted the high desertion the mood …
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High Seas and High Stakes
Would the North recognize Confederate privateers as agents of a sovereign state, or hang them from the yardarm as pirates? AMONG THE PRESSING PROBLEMS federate States of America faced in 1861 was its lack of a naval force. Although the U.S. Navy had only 42 warships in commission when the war began in April, the …
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A Monumental Lie: The Statue at ‘Bloody Angle’
Some Gettysburg veterans cried foul when the 72nd Pennsylvania placed its statue at the ‘Bloody Angle’. West of Hancock Avenue, just north of the Copse of Trees that marks the High Water Mark of the Confederacy, stands the monument of the 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, topped by a statue of a member of the regiment …
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Joshua Chamberlain at Petersburg
The Union colonel’s own clouded hindsight has led to confusion about his 1864 heroics. June 18, 1864 was not a good day for the Army of the Potomac. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant had ordered another series of assaults against the Confederate lines at Petersburg, Va., hoping to capture the city before General Robert E. …
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Sherman Closes In: The Fiery Commander Captures Atlanta
William Tecumseh Sherman was finally perched where he wanted and could best operate by the spring of 1864. He had been promoted to brigadier general of Regulars and even better, he had finalized his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. His Herculean labors were over, and he was now truly the trusted associate of the man …
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Time to Thaw Out- Civil War Times June 2014
Ice, snow and freezing temperatures assailed the Civil War Times offices in Leesburg, Va., this past winter, costing us a couple of days of work during the production of this issue. Civil War soldiers who had to serve picket duty on even the coldest of days in the Old Dominion, would understandably scoff at what …
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A Fractured America Unified Canada: Interview with John Boyko
Canadian author John Boyko’s book Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation delivers an astonishing picture of the complex and sometimes subversive relationships between the United States and its northern neighbor. Through the lives of a fugitive slave, high-profile politicians and spies and a cross-dressing nurse, Boyko tells …
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John B. Jones’ Confederate War
An observant clerk opined on Lee, slavery and strategy. A deep chasm runs through Civil War literature, separating military and nonmilitary topics. Historians interested in the home front too often explore only politics, society, civilian morale and the economics of the war, and scarcely offer a nod toward the campaigning of massive armies. In many …
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Letters from Readers- Civil War Times June 2014
Two Views of 12 Years The article on 12 Years a Slave in the April 2014 issue was a wonderful piece. It captured exactly how I felt while watching the movie. It was almost as if I were back in the movie theater again. I was most impressed by author Megan Kate Nelson’s thought of …
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Book Review: The Civil War Generals
The Civil War Generals: Comrades, Peers, Rivals in Their Own Words Robert I. Girardi, Zenith Press Drawing from memoirs, diaries, letters and interviews, Robert Girardi offers a nuanced portrait of more than 400 generals and an occasional admiral and commander in chief, in the views of those who fought alongside and against them. Here’s a …
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Book Review: A Season of Slaughter
A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864 Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White, Savas Beatie At the beginning of his first campaign in Virginia since becoming commander in chief of the Union Army, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant told Maj. Gen. George G. Meade on May 3, 1864, “Lee’s …
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Book Review: Necessary Courage
Necessary Courage: Iowa’s Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery Lowell J. Soike, University of Iowa Press From its first settlements in the 1830s to its incorporation as a state in December 1846, Iowa was dominated by pro-slavery Democrats. But as more people moved there, the influx included evangelical Christians and other abolitionist elements. By …
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Book Review: The Fifth New York Cavalry in the Civil War
The Fifth New York Cavalry in the Civil War Vincent L. Burns, McFarland Vincent Burns’ book is based on a war journal kept by Louis N. Boudrye, the 5th New York Cavalry’s chaplain. He also combed through letters, newspaper accounts and other material to compile a comprehensive history of one of the war’s longest-serving cavalry …
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Book Review: Grant’s River Campaign
Grant’s River Campaign: Fort Henry to Shiloh Jack H. Lepa. McFarland & Co. The day Fort Donelson fell was the day the South lost the Civil War, according to Jack Lepa, who argues it was the war’s turning point even though more than three years of fighting would ensue before the Confederacy admitted it was …
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Book Review: The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Jared Peatman, Southern Illinois University Press Debate over the meaning of Gettysburg has been going on for 150 years. For President Abraham Lincoln, speaking at the national cemetery dedication on November 19, 1863, the significance of the soldiers’ sacrifice on the battlefield lay in the “cause for which …
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Book Review: Bloody Spring
Bloody Spring: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy’s Fate Joseph Wheelan, De Capo Press Four years after the May 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, a serious history of that campaign appeared in print, complete with superb maps. Several other excellent books on the battle soon followed. In stark contrast, the stories of the 1864 battles of …
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Book Review: Lincoln and the Power of the Press
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion Harold Holzer, Simon & Schuster Abraham Lincoln believed “with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.” In the mid–19th century, swaying the public’s opinion meant learning the art of communicating through newspapers. In the words of Noah Webster, “In no …
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Last Ride at Anzio
Fierce German counterattacks came within one mile of destroying an Allied invasion in early 1944
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Comic Book Review: World of Tanks: Rollout!
Check out World War II's review of Dark Horse/Wargaming's latest "World of Tanks" comic books–based off the popular video game.
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Selasa, 21 Februari 2017
February 22, 1980: U.S. hockey team makes miracle on ice
In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviet squad, previously regarded as the finest in the world, fell to the youthful American team 4-3 before a frenzied crowd of 10,000 spectators. Two days later, the Americans defeated Finland 4-2 to clinch the...
Seeing the Elephant: On the Civil War Battlefields
Civil War soldiers fought close-up, in grisly, deafening conditions. MANY SOLDIERS volunteered to “see the elephant,” a period metaphor for witnessing something exotic, outside the realm of everyday life. Volunteers might also have hoped that participating in the circus of war would confer some special status back home. In actuality, they could find combat invigorating, …
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Daily Quiz for February 22, 2017
In 1918, the McLaughlin Motor Company merged with this car company to form General Motors of Canada.
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A Brother’s Regret: William C. Oates
15th Alabama commander William C. Oates could never get over his younger sibling’s death on Gettyburg’s Little Round Top. War often leaves invisible wounds. Casualties don’t always take place on the battlefield, and even when they do, they might not come from bullets, shells and shrapnel. Sometimes wounds live in the veterans’ unconscious, nightmares that …
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‘Every thing seems so dark…’: Diary of a Confederate Woman
War shattered Judith McGuire’s comfortable lifestyle. WOMEN’S DIARIES offer some of the richest firsthand perspectives of the war. One of the best is Judith Brockenbrough McGuire’s Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War. McGuire was 48 when the war began, married to a widower Rev. John McGuire, and stepmother to his five children. The …
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Slavery’s Hazards- Civil War Times August 2014
Three small scraps of cloth on display at the New-York Historical Society’s Civil War textile exhibit, “Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War,” (P. 52), illustrate the complexity of American slavery and race relations just before the war. The fabric is a blend of cotton and wool, sometimes called “Jeans” or “Negro …
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Arlington Cemetery Turns 150: Interview with Stephen Carney
Situated on a bluff near the Potomac River, Arlington National Cemetery offers a sweeping view of the nation’s capital— and a sweeping review of the nation’s history. In 1861 the 600-acre site belonged to Robert E. Lee’s wife, Mary Custis Lee, who had inherited it from her grandfather, George Washington Parke Custis, adopted son of …
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A One-Sided Friendship: Joseph E. Johnston and Robert E. Lee
In April 1870, Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, both 63 years old, gray and grizzled, sat for a photographer in Savannah, Ga. Lee had about six months to live, Johnston nearly 21 years. In two of three poses from the session, including the one reprinted at right, Lee looks directly across a small …
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Letters from Readers- Civil War Times August 2014
Fulton’s Fate On P. 55 of your June 2014 issue, you show a II Corps badge for Edward Fulton but state that he was killed at Antietam. According to Mark Boatner’s Civil War Dictionary, such badges were not issued until the spring of 1863. Perhaps Private Fulton was killed at Gettysburg. Jim Godlove Houston, Texas …
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Book Review: Shenandoah Valley 1862
Shenandoah Valley 1862: Stonewall Jackson Outmaneuvers the Union By Clayton and James Donnell, Osprey Publishing His stubborn stand on Henry Hill at First Manassas may have given him a catchy nickname, but it was Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson’s campaign to distract, divert and ultimately defeat three Union forces in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley that brought …
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Book Review: The River Was Dyed With Blood
The River Was Dyed With Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow Brian Steel Wills, University of Oklahoma Press At the conclusion of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, film director John Ford has a newspaper editor voice Ford’s definition of historical truth: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” No Civil War figure …
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Book Review: Across the Divide
Across the Divide: Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front Steven J. Ramold, New York University Press The war’s nature made it all but certain that tensions would at some point emerge between the soldiers and the people back home. As in all armed conflicts, there were significant experiential differences between the two in 1861-1865, …
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Book Review: The Petersburg Campaign, Volume II
The Petersburg Campaign, Volume II: The Western Front Battles, September 1864– April 1865 Edwin C. Bearss with Bryce A. Suderow, Savas Beatie Novices and even many buffs think of the struggle for Petersburg as one long siege: nine months of mind-numbing trench warfare interrupted by a massive explosion and bloodbath. The second part of this …
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Film Review: Civil War- The Untold Story
Civil War: The Untold Story Produced and directed by Chris Wheeler RLJ Entertainment Chris Wheeler’s new documentary series Civil War: The Untold Story boldly declares its uniqueness in its title, and roots this claim in a focus on the Western Theater: the extensive territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River (but no farther west …
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Book Review: William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory
William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory: A Civil War Biography David G. Moore, McFarland Washington, D.C., has so many monuments honoring Union heroes: Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas—even George McClellan has a statue. But for the man David G. Moore calls “the general who won the Civil War,” there is none. Why is Maj. …
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Book Review: Clouds of Glory
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee Michael Korda, HarperCollins 2014 Few characters from the Civil War rival Robert E. Lee in complexity and mystique. During the conflict, he symbolized and glorified a rebellion, only to rise as a role model who sought peace and national unity after Appomattox. Nearly 150 …
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‘The Sights Fairly Sicken Me’: Diary of an Andersonville Survivor
Nearly 150 years ago, in September 1864, George A. Hitchcock looked up from his pocket diary, staring glassy-eyed through a hot Georgia rain. “Signs of scurvy have appeared in my mouth around the gums of my diseased teeth,” he wrote. “The gums swell up and turn dark purple. Where others have it and do not …
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In Search of Private Davies
A trip to Vicksburg brings a Union veteran’s memories to life. I looked down into a lush little valley at Vicksburg National Military Park and wondered if that was where my great-great-grandfather, William Morgan Davies, had been on May 19, 1863, as Union forces attacked the Confederate fortifications defending Vicksburg. Gazing at Cemetery Road, which …
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6 Questions I Author Erich B. Anderson
ERICH B. ANDERSON is a freelance writer with a B.A. in history and anthropology from Northern Illinois University and a member of the Authors Guild. He has written numerous articles for History Today, Military History Monthly, Ancient Warfare, Medieval Warfare, Minerva, KMT, Strategy & Tactics, Military Heritage, All About History, History of War, Archaeological Diggings, …
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Senin, 20 Februari 2017
February 21, 1965: Malcolm X assassinated
In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.
Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, Malcolm was the son of James Earl Little, a Baptist preacher who advocated the black nationalist ideals of Marcus Garvey. Threats from the Ku Klux Klan forced the family to move...
From Friends to Enemies: Grant vs. Rosecrans
The Battle of Iuka sparked animosity between Ulysses S. Grant and William S. Rosecrans. CADET ULYSSES GRANT stood stiffly at attention on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, prepared to spend an 1839 summer evening guarding not an important cannon emplacement or a main gate but a lowly water pump. William …
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What was American life like in 1900?
Hello Mr. History, I was wondering if you could please educate me on something: I’d like to get a perspective of what daily life was like in rural/farming communities and towns in America from 1900-1905. I’d like to specifically know what made individuals’ lives difficult. How were individuals affected by things like the efflux of …
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Daily Quiz for February 21, 2017
The Football War also known as the Soccer War and 100 Hour War occurred in this part of the world.
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A Novel for All Ages- Civil War Times October 2014
Reference to the book Rifles for Watie in this issue’s “Q&A” (P. 26) triggered memories of scenes from Harold Keith’s Newbery Award–winning novel, which I first read in third grade: How the main character, Jeff Davis Bussey, toiling at the plow, regretted eating his corn bread well before noon after hunger pangs struck him at …
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Battlefield Enemies and Trading Partners: Interview with Philip Leigh
When Philip Leigh was in the seventh grade he read Rifles for Watie, a novel by Harold Keith that tells the story of a boy who worked on both sides of the war in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). The questions that story raised concerning intersectional trade during the conflict long reverberated with Leigh, and the …
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Forgotten Master: Allan Nevins’ Multi-Volume History
Authors who imagine they write for the ages should look to the chastening example of Allan Nevins (1890-1971). Once a giant in the field whose name often appeared alongside earlier luminaries such as James Ford Rhodes, Nevins worked almost literally to the end of his long life. A prolific historian and twice winner of the …
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Letters from Readers- Civil War Times October 2014
Chamberlain’s Brunswick The “Battlefields&Beyond” on Joshua Chamberlain and his connections to Brunswick, Maine August, was insightful. As the article points out, Chamberlain is also buried in Brunswick. There is a very active Civil War Round Table in Brunswick; I am the vice president, and we bring in great speakers to challenge and educate our membership. …
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Book Review: Gateway to the Confederacy
Gateway to the Confederacy: New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863 Edited by Evan C. Jones and Wiley Sword, Louisiana State University Press Although many publishers have concluded anthologies don’t sell, readers shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss them. Many worthwhile topics are better served by an essay than a book, and Gateway …
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Book Review: Point Lookout Prison Camp and Hospital
Point Lookout Prison Camp and Hospital Richard H. Triebe Coastal Books Richard H. Triebe’s extensively researched study of the Union’s largest prisoner of war compound, Point Lookout Prison Camp on the southern tip of St. Mary’s County, Md., combines the intimate focus of some 50 firsthand accounts with a revised accounting of the prisoners who …
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