On this day in 1959, facing a popular revolution spearheaded by Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees the island nation. Amid celebration and chaos in the Cuban capitol of Havana, the U.S. debated how best to deal with the radical Castro and the ominous rumblings of anti-Americanism in Cuba.
The U.S. government had supported Batista, a former soldier and Cuban dictator from 1933 to 1944, who seized power for...
Minggu, 31 Desember 2017
Daily Quiz for January 1, 2017
Edgar Rice Burroughs created this classic character in 1912.
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Sabtu, 30 Desember 2017
December 31, 1999: Panama Canal turned over to Panama
On this day in 1999, the United States, in accordance with the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, officially hands over control of the Panama Canal, putting the strategic waterway into Panamanian hands for the first time. Crowds of Panamanians celebrated the transfer of the 50-mile canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and officially opened when the SS Arcon sailed through on August 15, 1914. Since then, over 922,000 ships have used the canal.
Interest...
Daily Quiz for December 31, 2017
This twentieth century U.S. president is the only one to have been an Eagle Scout.
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Jumat, 29 Desember 2017
December 30, 1922: USSR established
In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics). Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.
During the Russian Revolution...
Daily Quiz for December 30, 2017
In 1923, Frederick Stanley Mockford of London established this universal distress signal.
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Kamis, 28 Desember 2017
December 29, 1890: U.S. Army massacres Indians at Wounded Knee
On this day in 1890, in the final chapter of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Throughout 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of the Ghost Dance spiritual movement, which taught that Indians had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs. Many...
Daily Quiz for December 29, 2017
Among the hundreds buried in Westminster Abbey are thirteen kings and this many queens.
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Ural on URLs: The Becker Collection
http://ift.tt/2lnldEU http://ift.tt/2lfsdUQ The inspiration behind “The Becker Collection” Web site is Sheila Gallagher, but the collection itself exists because of her great-great-grandfather Joseph Becker, who worked for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper during the war. Becker sketched battles, camp life and more. After the war, Becker continued his work for Leslie’s in the West, eventually becoming …
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CWT Book Review: Fire in the Cane Field
Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 by Donald S. Frazier, State House Press Donald Frazier brings a landscape artist’s eye and a dancing master’s rhythm to his narrative of the war’s first two years in the swamps, bayous, canebreaks and salt grass marshes of western Louisiana …
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CWT Book Review: The Civil War
The Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan, Alfred A. Knopf Disappointment is the best word to describe what will be most readers’ reactions to John Keegan’s eagerly awaited The Civil War: A Military History. Widely acclaimed as the greatest living military historian, Keegan produced such classics as The Face of Battle and The …
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CWT Book Review: Tinclads in the Civil War
Tinclads in the Civil War: Union Light-Draught Gunboat Operations on Western Waters, 1862-1865 by Myron J. Smith Jr., McFarland Publishers There is a logical reason that the light-draft gunboats known as “tinclads” tend to be overlooked in accounts of the Civil War’s Western theater. For the most part, they literally operated in the wake of …
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CWT Book Review: The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan
The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan edited by Thomas W. Cutrer, LSU Press In 1917 Princeton University historian William Starr Myers, whose 1934 book on George B. McClellan remains one of the most insightful and important studies of the general’s life and career, published an edited version of the diary that …
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CWT Book Review: U.S. Grant
U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth by Joan Waugh, University of North Carolina Press Near the end of a July 2007 article in History The Journal of Military surveying the previous quarter-century of scholarship on Ulysses S. Grant, the author offered a number of suggestions for students of the Union’s greatest general and 18th president. …
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Sacred to the Memory
Two of the nation’s oldest monuments stand on the Bull Run battlefields. In June 1865, Union soldiers erected two tall sandstone shafts on the First and Second Bull Run battlefields, at Henry Hill and near the unfinished railroad cut respectively, to com memo rate fallen Union soldiers from those battles. Those memorials are still in …
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Lost in the Fog of War
Bogged down in a back-and-forth fight, Confederates struggling to retake Louisiana’s capital waited in vain for help from their navy. Baton Rouge found itself at the center of unwanted attention in the late summer of 1862. That April, the Union Navy had over- whelmed the Confederate defenders of Forts Jackson and St. Philip at the …
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‘The War Was a Grievous Error’
General James Longstreet speaks his mind. In the summer of 1879, Alexander K. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Weekly Times Herald General James Longstreet was then working as postmaster, and inter- view him for McClure’s “Annals of the War” series. At the time, most Southerners despised Longstreet for his support of Congressional to travel to …
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CWT Letter from the Editor-April 2010
Keep On Digging August V. Kautz deserves a note of thanks from anyone interested in the war. Many of the forms he harped on in his manual The Company Clerk (P. 24)— Descriptive Lists, Sick Lists and more— found their way into the National Archives after the conflict. Some of that same material ended up …
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Interview with John F. Marszalek: Keeper of Grant’s Legacy
A Buffalo, N.Y., native and a Ph.D. from Notre Dame, John F. Marszalek taught for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2002. In 2008 he took over as the executive director and managing editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. He had become familiar with Grant while researching his well-received biographies Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion …
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General Ulysses S. Grant’s papers now reside deep in the heart of Dixie
Over 46 years, the Ulysses S. Grant Association (library. msstate.edu/USGrant), under the leadership of executive director and managing editor John Y. Simon, published 30 volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, the definitive edition of Grant’s correspondence. Before his own death in July 2008, Simon completed Volume 31, covering Grant’s last years. In mid-December …
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Making Sense of All That Paperwork
The Author: Born in Baden, Germany, August V. Kautz settled in Ohio with his family when he was an infant. Fighting in the Mexican War helped get him an appointment to West Point in 1848. After graduation, he was assigned to small outposts and had numerous scrapes with Indians in the prewar U.S. Army. He …
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CWT Letters from Readers- April 2010
Still Conflicted About Lee I read with great interest Gary Gallagher’s article on Robert E. Lee in the February issue. Do I think Lee was a great man? No! Do I find him a great strategist? No! Do I believe he should have been honored with recognition on U.S. stamps? Definitely not. That said, I …
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Alexander Hamilton’s Death: Suicide or Lost Shot
Alexander Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr was likely a bid for immortality, not revenge
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Rabu, 27 Desember 2017
December 28, 1895: First commercial movie screened
On this day in 1895, the world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes...
Daily Quiz for December 28, 2017
The final episode of “M*A*S*H” in February 1983 was the most watched TV program ever up until that point. Today, only these three members of its primary cast of eleven have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Ural on URLs: Iowa Digital Library
http://ift.tt/2ichA1j Iowa Digital Library’s “Civil War Diaries and Letters” (CWDL) site is part of the larger special collections department of the University of Iowa libraries. CWDL offers scanned images of correspondence, diaries, photos and other artifacts from the archive’s holdings. These pertain to a wide variety of topics, including military operations, medicine and home front …
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CWT Book Review: Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen, Henry Holt and Company The woman behind was ahead of her time, independent and forward-thinking. Little Women Biographer Harriet Reisen, whose self-professed obsession with Louisa May Alcott started with her own cherished copy of the novelist’s best-known work, drives home the point that while …
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CWT Book Review: West Pointers in the Civil War
West Pointers in the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh, University of North Carolina Press Why were the Union and Confederate armies generally unable to win decisive victories against each other during the Civil War? In his thoroughly researched new book, Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh, a professor at the …
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Rebel Mystery Man
Being a tale of the hunt for the identity of a bold adventurer, who hoped to capture a Yankee ship and a lady’s heart. For 50 years an intriguing diary has reposed in the University of Virginia’s Library—with no one sure of its author. In a detailed account of over 35,000 words, the diarist never …
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Vicksburg in the Round
Cycloramas brought an 1863 struggle for a Southern stronghold to life for the postwar generation. On July 4, 1863, Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee accepted the surrender of John Pemberton’s Army of Vicks- burg and its namesake town on the Mississippi River. Both armies, even Pemberton’s defeated Rebels, must have felt some sense …
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World’s First Military Railroad
To feed its hungry soldiers, the Confederacy constructed a railway with materiel captured by “Stonewall” Jackson. “Stonewall” Jackson was never one to overlook a military opportunity, so he jumped at the chance to seize railroad equipment near Harpers Ferry in 1861. The Confederacy made innovative use of the captured materiel, using it to build the …
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CWT Letter from the Editor- June 2010
Still Talking About the Weather Hopefully spring has finally arrived wherever you are, and you’re perusing this issue on a warm, sunny day. This past winter brought record snowfalls to parts of the East, and our offices in Leesburg, Va., were hit by two major storms in a week. The weather made things rough, blocking …
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A Small Home for a Big Decision
The tiny Leister House along the Taneytown Road is best known for serving as the headquarters of Union Major General George Gordon Meade during the Battle of Gettysburg. It was here, in its cramped interior, that Meade convened his famous council of war on the evening of July 2, 1863. The 1½-story log house south …
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CWT Letters from Readers- June 2010
Equine Tributes The April 2010 issue’s “Statshot” includes a partial image of the memorial in Middleburg, Va., to horses killed during the Civil War. A duplicate of that statue is located on the grounds of the U.S. Cavalry Museum at Fort Riley, Kan. Both were sculpted by Tessa Pullen in 1996. Fort Riley also boasts …
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Selasa, 26 Desember 2017
December 27, 1932: Radio City Music Hall opens
At the height of the Great Depression, thousands turn out for the opening of Radio City Music Hall, a magnificent Art Deco theater in New York City. Radio City Music Hall was designed as a palace for the people, a place of beauty where ordinary people could see high-quality entertainment. Since its 1932 opening, more than 300 million people have gone to Radio City to enjoy movies, stage shows, concerts, and special events.
Radio City Music Hall was...
Ural on URLs: House Divided Project
housedivided.dickinson.edu The House Divided Project builds on the experience of Dickinson College’s graduates to interpret the war era. Dickinson boasts a president, a chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and others among its 19th-century alumni who played roles in both the Union and Confederacy. Readers who prefer to start the day with a historic …
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CWT Book Review: The Edge of Mosby’s Sword
The Edge of Mosby’s Sword: The Life of Confederate Colonel William Henry Chapman by Gordon Blackwell Bonan, Southern Illinois University Press Occurring on the sidelines of the great campaigns in Virginia, the mounted raids and skirmishes by Colonel John S. Mosby’s 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, gained their own niche in Civil War legend. Among the …
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CWT Book Review: A Small but Spartan Band
A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia by Zack C. Waters and James C. Edmonds, University of Alabama Press What sets Band histories is how little primary apart from other unit A Small but Spartan source material its authors had to work with and how far and wide …
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Daily Quiz for December 27, 2017
Until the late nineteenth century, this area featured a small town with a high percentage of residents who were deaf.
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CWT Book Review: War Like the Thunderbolt
War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta by Russell S. Bonds, Westholme Publishing Not long after the end of the war, Northern journalists head ed south to report on conditions in the former Confederacy. For many, war-ravaged Atlanta was a key destination—the city’s core had been left a smoldering wreck after its …
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‘Villains, Vandals and Devils’
Hatred of Yankees helped keep Rebels fighting on. Eighteen-year-old Robert W. Banks worried about doing his duty. He seemingly had every reason to fight to preserve slavery as well. His father, a wealthy Mississippi attorney and planter, owned 78 bondspeople. When he wrote to his father after the Battle of Shiloh about joining the army, …
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The Great Libby Prison Breakout
One by one, the Union soldiers crawled out of the fetid tunnel into Richmond’s dark streets. A rush of fetid air and a chorus of “Fresh fish! Fresh fish!” greeted Colonel Thomas Rose of the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteers when the thick wooden door to the second floor of the old Richmond tobacco warehouse was pulled …
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The Proclamation and the Peculiar Institution
On the eve of the Sesquicentennial, controversy rages anew about slavery as a cause of the war. On April 6, 2010, Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell’s proclamation reinstated Confederate History Month after a hiatus of eight years, triggering a firestorm in the media. Civil War Times asked a number of scholars to weigh in on …
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CWT Letter from the Editor- August 2010
Two Generals at Gettysburg It is a shame that General Robert E. Lee never wrote his memoirs (P. 54). Because of that yawning gap in Civil War historiography, we’ll never have a comprehensive account of his reflections on choosing state over country or get a full recounting of how he felt when he learned Stonewall …
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The Snodgrass Family at Chickamauga
The fighting between William Rosecrans’ Union Army of the Cumberland and Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee reached a climax on the farm of George Washington Snodgrass and the hills dubbed Horseshoe Ridge on September 20, 1863. How Union Major General George H. Thomas earned his nickname, the “Rock of Chickamauga,” by making a stand …
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Interview: Bob Kirby Takes the Reins at Gettysburg National Military Park
Robert Kirby, Gettysburg Nation- al Military Park’s new superintendent, has worked at historic sites from San Francisco to Europe. He came to his new assignment on March 1, 2010, after nine years at Petersburg National Battlefield in Virginia. Kirby fell in love with Petersburg because “the story was fabulous,” and “to a large degree Petersburg …
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Blue and Gray: Reevaluating Virginia’s ‘Shared History’
It is difficult to imagine what prompted Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell to ignore the institution of slavery and the process of Emancipation in a proclamation announcing Confederate History Month. The “people of Virginia joined the Confederate States of America in a four year war between the states for independence,” observed the proclamation, which encouraged …
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Civil War Times- August 2010
A Fight Over George Meade’s Horse The dispute over what is left of Old Baldy, the horse that carried Union General George Gordon Meade through eight engagements, including the Battle of Gettysburg, recently ended up in court. Baldy’s handsome stuffed head and neck was displayed for many years at the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia …
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CWT Letters from Readers- August 2010
Protecting Robert, for Mary’s Sake William Marvel took somewhat of a jab at Abraham Lincoln in his article “Staying the Course at Gettysburg” (April 2010) when he wrote that the president’s military-age son Robert “would see not service until the last eight weeks of the war….” Lincoln, who had already lost two sons to illness, …
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Questions Regarding a Fictional Soldier in WWII
Dear Mr. History, I’m an author of historical fiction researching my upcoming book which features a young man in July 1943 during the days leading up to and subsequent to his 18th birthday. He’s eager to serve in spite of an anxiety disorder which causes him to faint–an ailment he keeps secret. My questions are: …
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Money Out Of Misery
Profiteers on both sides of the war lined their own pockets at their countries’ expense
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Deep Freeze Fight
The Army of Northern Virginia went to war with itself in February 1863
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Senin, 25 Desember 2017
Reviews | Unshackling America
PERHAPS THIS BOOK’S GREATEST WEAKNESS IS ITS TITLE. Far from another study of the War of 1812, Willard Randall’s fast-paced narrative sweeps across the history of America from its mid-1700s status as a colonial satellite through the Revolution against the mother country and the growing pains of Federalism and into the second and final war …
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The Last Stand of Detachment
A small band of military broadcasters in Hue fought gallantly against the Tet onslaught
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December 26, 1946: Bugsy Siegel opens Flamingo Hotel
On December 26, 1946, in Las Vegas, Nevada, mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel opens The Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino at a total cost of $6 million. The 40-acre facility wasn’t complete and Siegel was hoping to raise some revenue with the grand opening.
Well-known singer and comedian Jimmy Durante headlined the entertainment, with music by Cuban band leader Xavier Cugat. Some of Siegel’s Hollywood friends, including actors George Raft, George Sanders,...
Daily Quiz for December 26, 2017
Actor Howard McNear beloved as Mayberry’ barber, Floyd Lawson, on “The Andy Griffith Show,” originated this character on radio but was replaced when the show moved to television.
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Minggu, 24 Desember 2017
December 25, 1914: The Christmas Truce
Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the majority of German troops engaged in World War I cease firing their guns and artillery and commence to sing Christmas carols. At certain points along the eastern and western fronts, the soldiers of Russia, France, and Britain even heard brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing.
At the first light of dawn, many of the German soldiers emerged from their trenches and approached the Allied...
Daily Quiz for December 25, 2017
Although his father, also a minister, had served as Harvard University’s sixth president, this man was a cofounder of Yale University.
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Sabtu, 23 Desember 2017
December 24, 1979: Soviet tanks roll into Afghanistan
On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978.
As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each. Within a few days, the Soviets had secured Kabul, deploying a special assault unit against Tajberg Palace. Elements of the Afghan army loyal...
Daily Quiz for December 24, 2017
Issued during World War I, the Balfour Declaration stated Great Britain’s support of this.
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Jumat, 22 Desember 2017
December 23, 1888: Van Gogh chops off ear
On this day in 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France.He later documented the event in a painting titled Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. Today, Van Gogh is regarded as an artistic genius and his masterpieces sell for record-breaking prices; however, during his lifetime, he was a poster boy for tortured starving artists and sold only...
Daily Quiz for December 23, 2017
George Wishart helped lead the Protestant Reformation in Scotland alongside this reformer.
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March 2018 Table of Contents
The March 2018 issue features a cover story about the failed 1565 Muslim Siege of Malta
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March 2018 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about women in combat, the Victoria Cross and the M50 Ontos tank destroyer
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Book Review: The Splintered Empires
Prit Buttar caps his definitive four-volume history of the Eastern Front in World War I
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Book Review: The Great Halifax Explosion
John Bacon recalls the 1917 disaster — history's largest man-made explosion prior to the advent of the nuclear age
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Book Review: The Allure of Battle
Cathal Nolan argues that military victories through history have relied primarily on endurance and attrition
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Book Review: A Passing Fury
British author-researcher A.T. Williams assesses Allied efforts at punishing World War II atrocities
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Book Review: The Battle of Waterloo
Father-and-son team Peter and Dan Snow recount the epic 1815 European battle
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IEDs: Faceless Enemy
The toughest fight for U.S. troops in post-Saddam Iraq was the campaign against improvised explosive devices and related technology
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VIDEO: Screaming Eagles remember 248 Lost in 1985 crash
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VIDEO: Marines plan to experiment with autonomous helicopters
With no pilot in the air, and no pilot on the ground, unmanned helos may soon be making dangerous supply deliveries or getting Marines out of harm’s way ― all from the summon of a mobile tablet.
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M998 Humvee
In 1982 the Army selected AM General's design and rolled out the M998 Humvee
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Undefended Shore
In 1942 American merchant ships up and down the Atlantic Coast were being relentlessly attacked by German U-boats. Why did the U.S. Navy secretly decide to leave them unprotected?
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Laurie Rush: Saving Culture Amid Combat
Laurie Rush speaks to the importance of preserving cultural treasures amid combat
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Kamis, 21 Desember 2017
December 22, 1956: First gorilla born in captivity
On this day in 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo enters the world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever gorilla born in captivity. Weighing in at approximately 4 pounds, Colo, a western lowland gorilla whose name was a combination of Columbus and Ohio, was the daughter of Millie and Mac, two gorillas captured in French Cameroon, Africa, who were brought to the Columbus Zoo in 1951. Before Colo’s birth, gorillas found at zoos were caught...
Daily Quiz for December 22, 2017
In 1963, this famous son was kidnapped.
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In the Uniform of the Enemy–The Dutch Waffen-SS
Why side with an adversary? There are clues—and more questions—in the experiences of Dutch recruits to the Waffen-SS
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Rabu, 20 Desember 2017
December 21, 1988: Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland
On this day in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. The disaster, which became the subject of Britain’s largest criminal investigation, was believed to be an attack against...
Daily Quiz for December 21, 2017
In August 15, 1958, the first group of stars-eight-were placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The group did NOT include this entertainer.
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January 2018 Table of Contents
The January 2018 issue features a cover story about John Barry, widely acknowledged "Father of the U.S. Navy"
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January 2018 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about the Reconquista of Iberia from Islamic invaders, the 1781 Anglo-French Battle of Jersey, a tank at Khe Sanh, Vietnam, and General Douglas MacArthur
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Selasa, 19 Desember 2017
December 20, 1957: Elvis Presley is drafted
On this day in 1957, while spending the Christmas holidays at Graceland, his newly purchased Tennessee mansion, rock-and-roll star Elvis Presley receives his draft notice for the United States Army.
With a suggestive style–one writer called him “Elvis the Pelvis”–a hit movie, Love Me Tender, and a string of gold records including “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel,” Presley had become a national icon, and the...
Daily Quiz for December 20, 2017
This actress became a star in silent movies starring in the “Perils of Pauline” serials.
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War on the Water: ’Nor any drop to drink’
Access to safe drinking water has been a major concern for sailors throughout mankind’s conquest of the oceans. Ships normally carried potable water in casks or tanks; however, there was a limit on how long it could be stored in that manner before it became virtually undrinkable. While ocean voyages were generally planned with several landfalls, there are countless accounts of vessels running out...
The War on the Net: The North Carolina Digital Collections
“The North Carolina Digital Collections” website offers an example of just how rich and varied digital repositories can be. The collection includes over 90,000 manuscripts, photographs, and state government publications related to the history of North Carolina that are housed in the State Archives or the State Library.
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Senin, 18 Desember 2017
December 19, 1998: President Clinton impeached
After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.
In November 1995, Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern. Over the course of a year and a half, the president...
Daily Quiz for December 19, 2017
Nobel Prizes beginning in 1901 were awarded in five categories. In 1968, this sixth category was added.
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Minggu, 17 Desember 2017
December 18, 1620: Mayflower docks at Plymouth Harbor
On December 18, 1620, the British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.
The famous Mayflower story began in 1606, when a group of reform-minded Puritans in Nottinghamshire, England, founded their own church, separate from the state-sanctioned Church of England. Accused of treason, they were forced to leave the country and settle in the more tolerant...
Daily Quiz for December 18, 2017
In the late 1770’s or early 1780‘s, he invented the pyrometer to measure high temperatures.
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Black Sheep Leader
U.S. Marine ace Pappy Boyington is as well known for his flamboyant personality as for his flying skills.
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Sabtu, 16 Desember 2017
December 17, 1903: First airplane flies
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.
Orville and Wilbur Wright grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and developed an interest in aviation after learning of the glider flights of the German engineer Otto Lilienthal...
Daily Quiz for December 17, 2017
The Japanese anime cartoon series Mach GoGoGo was titled this in America.
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Jumat, 15 Desember 2017
December 16, 1773: The Boston Tea Party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the...
Daily Quiz for December 16, 2017
This was the official designation of the UH-1 “Huey” helicopter.
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Power of the Pardon
The intricacies behind the American presidency’s most imperial perquisite
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The Other Cactus Air Force
The contributions of the Army Air Forces were vital to victory at Guadalcanal
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Kamis, 14 Desember 2017
December 15, 2001: Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens
On this day in 2001, Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after a team of experts spent 11 years and $27 million to fortify the tower without eliminating its famous lean.
In the 12th century, construction began on the bell tower for the cathedral of Pisa, a busy trade center on the Arno River in western Italy, some 50 miles from Florence. While construction was still in progress, the tower’s foundation began to sink into the soft, marshy ground,...
Daily Quiz for December 15, 2017
In 1931, the American Medical Association gave this processed food its stamp of approval.
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Best Books of 2017: A dozen can’t-miss military reads
This was the year of reading voraciously. Why? Because literary fiction by veterans continues to achieve mainstream recognition, and nonfiction becomes more inclusive. Unsung women decipher enemy plans in “Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II.” The welcome and necessary anthology “It’s My Country Too: Women’s Military …
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Rabu, 13 Desember 2017
December 14, 1911: Amundsen reaches South Pole
Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott.
Amundsen, born in Borge, near Oslo, in 1872, was one of the great figures in polar exploration. In 1897, he was first mate on a Belgian expedition that was the first ever to winter in the Antarctic. In 1903, he guided the 47-ton sloop Gjöa through the Northwest Passage and around the Canadian coast, the first navigator to accomplish...
Daily Quiz for December 14, 2017
In 1980 this 24-hour news channel started operations
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Wizard of the Wires
Edison was a genius, but a bright young Englishman, Samuel Insull, made him rich.
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Selasa, 12 Desember 2017
December 13, 2000: Al Gore concedes presidential election
Vice President Al Gore reluctantly concedes defeat to Texas Governor George W. Bush in his bid for the presidency, following weeks of legal battles over the recounting of votes in Florida, on this day in 2000.
In a televised speech from his ceremonial office next to the White House, Gore said that while he was deeply disappointed and sharply disagreed with the Supreme Court verdict that ended his campaign, ”partisan rancor must now be put aside.”
“I...
Daily Quiz for December 13, 2017
US Postal Service official discontinued this as a separate service in 1995.
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Brigadier General John Gibbon’s Brief Breach During the Battle of Fredericksburg
Much has been written about the ill-starred soldiers of the Army of the Potomac who died at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, on December 13, 1862, in a doomed attempt to drive the Confederates from Marye’s Heights. But few accounts detail the equally brave if futile sacrifice of Brigadier General John Gibbon’s 2nd Division on …
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All or Nothin’: The surrender Sherman and Johnston crafted at Bennett Place
The surrender Sherman and Johnston crafted at Bennett Place was monumental. It very nearly never happened.
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BENNETT PLACE SURRENDER AGREEMENTS
April 18, 1865 Memorandum or basis of agreement made this 18th day of April, A.D. 1865, near Durham’s Station, in the State of North Carolina, by and between General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Confederate army, and Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, commanding the army of the United States in North Carolina, both present. First. …
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Senin, 11 Desember 2017
Mangled by a Shell: A tattered photograph tells a grim story
A year after his regiment’s ill-fated charge at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, Oliver Dart Jr. faced another great trial, sitting for a photograph at a studio on Main Street in Hartford, Conn.
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December 12, 1980: Da Vinci notebook sells for over 5 million
On this day in 1980, American oil tycoon Armand Hammer pays $5,126,000 at auction for a notebook containing writings by the legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci.
The manuscript, written around 1508, was one of some 30 similar books da Vinci produced during his lifetime on a variety of subjects. It contained 72 loose pages featuring some 300 notes and detailed drawings, all relating to the common theme of water and how it moved. Experts have said that...