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Billy Claiborne, a member of the notorious Clanton Gang of Tombstone, Arizona was an outlaw cowboy, miner, and gunfighter. He was killed in a... Read More
We have a bit of history with Herman Melville's Moby-Dick here at Monkey See. It was the second selection in our I Will If You Will... Read More
We’ve been fighting wars ever since we started having disputes with others and had enough people on both sides willing to... Read More
At dawn on Friday, November 13, 1942, burning, wrecked ships littered the waters of Guadalcanal. At a cost of five ships and thousands of... Read More
On November 14, 1910, the US military took its first step toward linking flight and naval operations when Eugene Ely made the first carrier... Read More
The facts, ma'am. Just the facts. July 19 marked the first major motion picture release by the National Geographic Society. K-19: The... Read More
During the end of the twentieth century, post-war Europe has changed dramatically. One example of such change is the reunification of... Read More
Beyond Apollo 11 Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, was planned and executed as a precision landing. The astronauts... Read More
risket may dominate barbecue menus in Texas today, but nearly a century ago, a Dallas institution built its mighty restaurant empire on... Read More
Like many rulers from the time before we had running water and microwaves, the pharaohs of Egypt were considered to be only rivaled in power... Read More
Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a... Read More
A peculiar find was recently made in the Russian city of Pskov where archaeologists have discovered what they jokingly described as an... Read More
Hollywood Icon James Dean—whose legendary career was cut short following a fatal automobile accident—is now slated for a return... Read More
A DNA analysis has confirmed the identity of a mysterious one-legged skeleton discovered beneath a dance floor in Russia earlier this... Read More
When I was a boy, back in the 1970s in Australia, I was taken to see a veterans’ parade. There they were, all these old men in their... Read More
“Trust me”: It’s a tired cliché, a throwaway line, but when you first encounter it in “A Warning,” the... Read More
n January 1, 1914, the first scheduled passenger flights began soaring through the skies between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida. With the... Read More
A compulsion to find meaning in chaos has produced many Theories of Trumpism. Initially shocked by such an erratic candidate and a... Read More
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On November 13, 2015 three teams of Islamic State jihadists launched coordinated assaults on Paris leaving 129 dead and hundreds... Read More
Sometimes, just a few months can change the course of civilization. That’s what happened in 1942 when a series of decisive events... Read More
Illinois, Maryland, and Alabama have a peculiar bond. They all have counties or cities named after MG Richard Montgomery, a martyr of the... Read More
Like many Civil War historians, I have for many years accepted invitations to address the general public. I have nearly always tried to offer... Read More
German, Polish, and Czech scholars and citizens have so far been unable to divorce their enduring ethnic pride, revanchism, and nationalistic... Read More
Gifford Pinchot was chief forester for William Howard Taft when a scandal over Alaska coal got him fired, angered Theodore Roosevelt and sent... Read More
Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation. The state was an independent country from... Read More
ive thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north of the equator, on a far-flung spit of white coral sand in the central Pacific, a... Read More
One month of maneuver, attack, retreat, bait, trap, ambush, and bloody butchery in the Ia Drang Valley in the fall of 1965 was the Vietnam... Read More
Since the invention of photography, images of the famous and infamous have enchanted the viewing public. A visual memorial of a high-profile... Read More
David Hambling
World War II was the greatest conflict in history, carried out on a scale almost impossible to grasp. In many ways it was the first modern war, in which airpower played a vital role both on land and at sea, but many actions were ultimately won by the determination and grit of the foot soldier. Here\'s the whole vast panoramic epic of the Second World War presented in 20 of its most significant bat... Read More
After the clashes and white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, the latest dimension of our unfolding national meltdown is over monuments to the Confederacy. In retaliation for the violence in Charlottesville, demonstrators pulled down a Confederate statue in Durham, several cities in the North quickly yanked theirs down, and several other places are considering the same thing.... Read More
In his 2004 trial prosecutors accused Scott Peterson of killing his wife and then dumping her body, weighted with homemade concrete anchors, into San Francisco Bay. Former Alameda County Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi presided over the case in San Mateo. He'd already tried 22 capital cases, six of which resulted in death sentences. Most notably, in 2000 he had sentenced carpet cleaner Giles... Read More
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