A preeminent author recalls his experience as one of America's first combat historians, among a handful of men who accompanied soldiers into the bloodiest battles to write history as it was being made.
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A junior Army officer, acting on secret orders from the president, bluffed a far stronger Mexican force into conceding North America's westernmost province to the United States.
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On a 1947 trip up north with his son, Ansel Adams took a remarkable photograph that brought Alaska's grandeur to the American public on a large scale for the first time.
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A century ago, a skilled and fearless stunt pilot landed a wire-and-wood aircraft on a ship's deck -- and introduced the era of naval aviation.
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Most associate Ronald Reagan with California, but he spent his formative years in the midwest. On the centennial of his birth, a handful of small Illinois towns want a share of the limelight.
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America’s first civil war took place during the Revolution, an ultra-violent, family-splitting, and often vindictive conflict between "patriots" and loyalists.
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A story that the Confederate president donned a petticoat to evade capture emerged right after Union cavalrymen apprehended him in Georgia at war’s end. Is it true?
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The archaeologist who discovered the real Jamestown debunks myths, and answers age-old mysteries about North America's first successful English colony.
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The archaeologist who discovered the real Jamestown debunks myths, and answers age-old mysteries about North America's first successful English colony.
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For the first time in U.S. history, women are fighting alongside their male their male counterparts. So far, 110 have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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