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  1. For Whom The Bell Tolled

    By Cecil Eby, August 1969, Volume 20, Issue 5

    In the Spanish Civil War, Americans in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion fought for their principles More >>>

  2. “By Heaven, That Ship Is Ours!”

    By Linda Mckee, December 1964, Volume 16, Issue 1

    So roared Captain Isaac Hull as Old Ironsides closed in mortal combat with the British frigate Guerrière. On the accuracy of his prediction hung all of America’s naval prestige in 1812 More >>>

  3. War Correspondent, 1864: The Sketchbooks Of James E. Taylor

    By Oliver Jensen, August/September 1980, Volume 31, Issue 5

    When old James E. Taylor exercised his powers of near-total recall to set down memories of the Shenandoah campaign, he left us a unique record of a very new, very hazardous profession More >>>

  4. The Battle Of Lake Erie

    By Richard F. Snow, February 1976, Volume 27, Issue 2

    "With half the western world at stake, See Perry on the middle lake.” —Nineteenth-century ballad More >>>

  5. Two Hours in Hell at Pearl Harbor

    By Ed Offley, Winter 2021, Volume 66, Issue 1

    USS Nevada was the only battleship to get underway during the attack at Pearl Harbor. The recent discovery of the ship's hull revived interest in her dramatic story. More >>>

  6. The Needless War With Spain

    By William E. Leu…, February 1957, Volume 8, Issue 2

    "The current was too strong, the demagogues too numerous, the fall elections too near" More >>>

  7. The Pilgrims and The Rock

    By Francis Russell, October 1962, Volume 13, Issue 6

    Did the Fathers in 1620 really land on that famous slab of granite? Through the haze of myth that surround it, a profound truth may be dimly seen More >>>

  8. The World & Nantucket

    By Nathaniel Benchley, June 1965, Volume 16, Issue 4

    The natives never could live quite happily with “off-island” civilization—but neither could they live without it More >>>

  9. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Heart Touched By Fire

    By Ronald Collins, Spring 2019, Volume 64, Issue 2

    His experiences in the Civil War shaped the mind of one of our greatest jurists. More >>>

  10. The Fires Of Norfolk

    By Ivan Musicant, March 1990, Volume 41, Issue 2

    At war’s outbreak a frightened commander was ready to give away the Union’s greatest navy yard More >>>

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