Artifacts USS Olympia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Model of USS Cheyenne Washington, DC World War I Uniform Jacket Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Stories Rec More >>>
The Korean War erupted 50 years ago this June. Many Americans still believe that it began in debacle (which is true) and ended in a humiliating compromise that changed nothing (which is not). More >>>
At one point in the Battle of White Plains an American militiaman whose unit was temporarily not engaged with the enemy called out to a nearby civilian: “Who’s ahead?” The civilian, holding a sm More >>>
You can rise fast and far in America, but, sometimes, the cost of the journey is hard to tally. More >>>
A young GI in Germany during the Korean War making the journey from war to peace, and from enmity to friendship, finds, amid the most tremendous change, smoldering embers of an old tyranny. More >>>
When I think of Alfred Hitchcock’s America—the vision of America that you get from watching the films that he made during his prime Hollywood period—these are some of the images that come to m More >>>
Jan Wollett found herself on the last flight of refugees out of a crumbling Da Nang in 1975. More >>>
Brilliant Benjamin Thompson won world fame as Count Rumford the scientist but never dispelled his countrymen’s suspicions More >>>
The author, who once served under General Patton and whose father, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was Patton's commanding officer, shares his memories of "Ol' Blood and Guts." More >>>
Long before Vietnam, Korea, the Argonne, or San Juan Hill, there was Mexico. As usual, it was the average G.I. who shouldered the burden of our foreign policy and what it cost in blood. This is the very graphic story of one foot soldier, as he told it in letters to his family back home in Massachusetts More >>>