The Somers Mutiny: Justice From the Yardarms
Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (Denisko/IStockPhoto) When astronauts experience technical difficulties ...View More
March 2021 Readers’ Letters
The Wages of War Dana Benner’s article “The Wages of War” [about the Rhodesian Bush War, published i ...View More
Britain’s Secret Weapon: The 13-Year-Old Schoolgirl Who Helped Win the Battle of Britain
France, with the largest standing army in the world, was defeated in six short weeks by German force ...View More
Book Review: Empires of the Sky
Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World, by Alexander Ros ...View More
A Controversial Question: When did the Vietnam War really start?
A series examining contentious issues of the Vietnam War Given that the United States never issued a ...View More
The War Correspondent Who Made Belleau Wood — and the Marine Corps — Immortal
“I am up at the front and entering Belleau Wood with the U.S. Marines.” And with that final dispatch ...View More
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton: the ‘Moses’ who Helped Thousands of Blacks Find Freedom
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (Granger) When founded in 1877, Nicodemus predated the mass migration of bl ...View More
“Wake, Nicodemus”: A Ballad by Abolitionist Henry Clay Work Inspired by a Black Settlement
The 1864 ballad “Wake, Nicodemus,” by abolitionist Henry Clay Work, likely inspired the name of Nico ...View More
A Killer Sense of Humor: Images of Murderous Rabbits Line Medieval Texts
“We’ll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit’s dynamite!” declared Arthur, King of the Brito ...View More
America’s First Black Fighter Pilot Fought for the French
Eugene Bullard made history as the first American black fighter pilot. At the Café Copoule in Paris ...View More
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