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Douglas L. Brooks created this in the final year of his life, click to enlarge (KMNB)After 10 years living on a wooded lake cove in Alabama, artist
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Nov. 2021 dig at magazine wall (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)Remains of four individuals believed to be Civil War soldiers were buried
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I finally finished one of the 6 or 7 books I've started in April. Life kept me busy and distracted this month. That didn't keep me from buying
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New tactile marker at Virginia Memorial includes braille (click to enlarge, GNMP)Three new Gettysburg National Military Park markers –
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All better now: A new parking area at the Wisler House outside Gettysburg (NPS)We’ve all been there. You come across an historic site or marker and
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In a special treat this week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany is back (he has written here once before). This time
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Today, we grow up reading stories about the massive battles of World War I and World War II, which included large-scale military operations that
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Throughout World War II, the United States government launched a series of media campaigns designed to keep Americans’ eyes on the prize: total
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When defending any position, the second-to-last thing a military unit wants to know is that they’re outnumbered. The very last thing the defenders
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In 1835 a revolution took place in Mexico, literally and figuratively. It enacted a new constitution under President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, one
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I hadn't planned on reading this book. But I was at the bookstore the day it came out, and they had a stack of it; I thought heck why not? It would
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Russian forces have been using mortars and rockets to bombard Soledar in an unrelenting assault, struggling for a breakthrough after military
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Machine fighter. That’s what the African locals called Green Beret CW2 Nick Lavery on his deployments after returning to his Special Operations
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Machine fighter. That’s what the African locals called Green Beret CW2 Nick Lavery on his deployments after returning to his Special Operations
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Machine fighter. That’s what the African locals called Green Beret CW2 Nick Lavery on his deployments after returning to his Special Forces team as