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Nearly killed by a German bomb, Pyle faced the fear and frustration known as “Anzio anxiety” among the American soldiers trapped with him on the beach.

Triumphs of a Tuskegee Airman

by Philip Handleman

Col. Harry Stewart downed three advanced Nazi fighter planes in one day, then surprised the Air Force when he and his Tuskegee teammates won the first "top gun" competition.

De Soto Ravages the South

by Peter Cozzens

Hernando de Soto marched across what is now eleven U.S. states, leaving a trail of destruction and disease.

Bringing Back the Buffalo

by Ann Morrow

Bison are returning to tribal lands under a conservation program launched by Deb Haaland, the first Native American Secretary of the Interior.

Classic Essays from Our Archives

1619: The Year That Shaped America | Winter 2019, Vol 64, No 1

By James Horn

Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.

How My Father and President Kennedy Saved The World | October 2002, Vol 53, No 5

By Sergei Khrushchev

The Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from the Kremlin

Who Invented Scalping? | April 1977, Vol 28, No 3

By James Axtell

In recent years many voices—both Native-American and white—have questioned whether Indians did in fact invent scalping. What is the evidence?

Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other? | Fall 2008, Vol 58, No 5

By Annette Gordon-Reed

To call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.

Range Practice | Februrary 1968, Vol 19, No 2

By Dean Acheson

Our former Secretary of State recalls his service fifty years ago in the Connecticut National Guard—asthmatic horses, a ubiquitous major, and a memorable

Ike's Son Remembers George S. Patton Jr. | Summer 2012, Vol 62, No 2

By John D. Eisenhower

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"

Today in History

Shenandoah Valley Campaign ends

Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign ends with a victory at the Battle of Port Republic. The battle, fought in Rockingham County, Virginia, completed a highly successful campaign for the Confederates as they prevented three Union armies from reinforcing the attack on Richmond.