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Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South By Jamie Amanda Martinez, University of North Carolina Press, 2014, $39.95 In his final annual message to the Confederate Congress in February 1864, President Jefferson Davis proposed that the government purchase 40,000 slaves to work mainly for the Engineer Bureau building fortifications. Upon the war’s end, they could …
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Aviation History Briefing- September 2008The Rocket Racing League Do not bet against entrepreneur Peter Diamandis. Crazy as his ideas might superficially seem, he makes them work. Diamandis’ X-Prize Foundation led to the … Read MoreAviation History Letters from Readers- September 2008Tiger Tale Congratulations on the fine Scarsdale Jack story in the July issue. The famous R.T. Smith photo you used in Bob Bergin’s article “Flying Tiger, Burning Bright” shows a f… Read MoreJune Bug CentennialPlenty of experiments end in failure, so it’s not surprising very few people actually witnessed the Wright brothers’ Flyer inaugurate the aerial age at Kitty Hawk. In fact, the Wri… Read MoreJuly 2018 Readers’ LettersReaders sound off about improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Winston Churchill, Choctaw code talkers and Civil War coal torpedoes
The post July 2018 Readers’ Letters appeared first… Read MoreThe Symphony of FlightOctave Chanute conducted from behind the scenes. The letter, dated May 13, 1900, was astonishing in its directness, lacking even the customary salutation. “For some years,” it bega… Read More
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