Rome's Most Cunning, Ruthless Ruler
UNRV History
America's Last Ace
Mark Bowden, The Atlantic
1947USAF Becomes Its Own Military Branch
Japan's Conquest of Manchuria
Mount Holyoke College
1931Japan's Conquest of Manchuria
Harpers Ferry: Stonewall's Greatest Hit
Dennis Frye, Civil War Trust
1862Confederate Forces Capture Harpers Ferry
Detailed Look at Civil War's Bloodiest Battle
History Net
1862Antietam: America's Bloodiest Battle
Hitler Triumphs With Nuremberg Laws
Philip Gavin, History Place
1935Nazi Germany Adopts Nuremberg Laws
FDR and Churchill's Polish Sellout
Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
1939Soviet Union Invades Poland
Was Charlottesville the Exception or the Rule?
Claudia Rankine, NY Times Magazine
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Kat Eschner, Smithsonian
Reality TV, Social Media Killed the Soaps
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Hitler's Battle Plan for Invasion of Britain Turns Up
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Civil War Cannonballs Unearthed by Hurricane Dorian
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Hawaii's 800-Year Journey
Glyn Ford, Asian Review of Books
Mao Zedong's Influence on the World
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Napoleon's Pyrrhic Conquest of Moscow
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How Kissinger Came in From the Cold
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MacArthur's Surprise in Inchon
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World War II

Remembering the Day the World Went to War

Eighty years ago, Adolf Hitler's war erupted. On September 1, 1939, the Nazi tyrant unleashed a lightning campaign to crush Poland. In destroying Poland, Hitler had the assistance of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, with whom he had made a pact to carve up Eastern Europe. With the Nazi murder machine striking from the west, and the Red Army invading from the east, even a determined Polish resis Read More

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Civil War

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Crime

Goons, Buffoons: Anatomy of Kerrigan Clubbing

It began with a fourth-place finish in China, Japan, a result that, except in the mind of Tonya Harding, could not have been less extraordinary. Competing for something called the NHK Trophy, Harding fell on her combination jump in the technical program, a disastrous error, which eventuated in her being beaten by three of the best skaters in the world, Surya Bonaly of France, Yuka Sato of Japan an Read More

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