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Today it seems unthinkable but in August 1863—the summer of Gettysburg and Vicksburg and the bloody New York draft riots—anybody could walk into the White House and ask to meet the president. Abraham Lincoln’s advisers warned him not to welcome strangers during wartime but he persisted. He called these meetings “taking a public opinion bath.” …
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What We Learned: from the Siege of VicksburgIn early 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant, with help from the Western Gunboat Flotilla, captured Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee and then won a victory at Shiloh, allowing a Un… Read MoreBuild your own DambusterRevell of Germany’s 1/72nd-scale Avro Lancaster B Mk. III “Dambuster” (kit 80-4295) has been called the best model of the British bomber ever produced. The 2009 release, a rewor… Read MoreThe DambustersAfter 70 years, the bold British raid on Germany’s strategic river dams remains one of history’s most audacious bombing missions—a testament to ingenious engineering and … Read MoreThe End Was NearNew information about the Cuban Missile Crisis shows just how close we came to nuclear Armageddon. It was one minute before high noon on Oct. 27, 1962, the day that later became kn… Read MoreValor: The Gentleman MarinePrivate Henry L. Hulbert U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Samoa, 1899 By the time he died in a hail of German machine-gun fire on France’s Blanc Mont Ridge on Oct. 4, 1918, 1st Lt.… Read More
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