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  1. Gunboat War At Vicksburg

    By Daniel F. Kemp, August/September 1978, Volume 29, Issue 5

    A Union seaman’s nightmarish memories of shot, shell, and shoal waters in Grant’s Mississippi River campaign, 1862–63 More >>>

  2. Mr. Eads Spans The Mississippi

    By Joseph Gies, August 1969, Volume 20, Issue 5

    The odds were all against him. His only credential seemed to be self-confidence—and who had ever heard of a steel bridge? More >>>

  3. News From Nanking

    By Anonymous (not verified), July/August 1999, Volume 50, Issue 4

    In early 1937 I arrived in Nanking (as it was then called), China. I was twenty-four years old and knew no one, but I was armed with letters of introduction. My purpose: adventure. I wanted a Pearl More >>>

  4. We Must Never Surrender

    By Garry Kasparov, Spring 2022, Volume 67, Issue 2

    For nearly three decades, the author has warned that, if we ignored Putin's ambitions, he would become a global problem. More >>>

  5. Humiliation and Triumph

    By Walter Lord, August 1972, Volume 23, Issue 5

    The year was 1814, and within three weeks our “young and not always wise” nation suffered acute shame and astonishing victory More >>>

  6. The End Of The Alabama

    By Norman C. Delaney, April 1972, Volume 23, Issue 3

    Captain Semmes was spoiling for a fight—and Winslow of the U.S.S. Kearsarge was waiting for him, just off Cherbourg More >>>

  7. Leslie Gehres: Captain of the "Ship that Wouldn't Die"

    By David Davidson, April 1969, Volume 20, Issue 3

    The admiral who commanded "the ship that wouldn't die" recalls the hellish and heroic hours after a kamikaze turned the carrier Franklin into an inferno. More >>>

  8. Who Really Elects The Presidents?

    By D. M. Marshman, Jr., February 1973, Volume 24, Issue 2

    In the aftermath of the 1972 election we believe professional politicians might find the thoughtful essay that follows worth a little study; it might save them time and money in 1976. The author, Mr. More >>>

  9. War And Our Freedoms

    By Kevin Baker, April/May 2002, Volume 53, Issue 2

    THE TROUBLE WITH MILITARY TRIBUNALS More >>>

  10. Galveston, September 8, 1900: When The Hurricane Struck

    By John E. Weems, October 1968, Volume 19, Issue 6

    Weatherman Joseph L. Cline worked late in the austere quarters of the Galveston office Friday nicht, September 7, 1900. A twenty-nine-year-old bachelor, a nondrinkcr in a city where liquor Ro More >>>

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