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NURSES, ACTIVISTS, SOLDIERS, SPIES: WOMEN’S ROLES DURING THE CIVIL WAR
Women didn't just stay on the homefront in the American Civil War. They played a variety of roles.
New Museum Opens in Gettysburg … But It’s About WWII
The Civil War put the town on the map, but it was also once home to a Nazi POW camp, top-secret navy mapmaking facilities, and more.
Commission Recommends Stripping Confederate Service Academy Honors
“Cadets of the present who devote their lives to national service should do so in an environment and setting that honors the greatest examples, traditions, and leaders of our past,” according to the report.
Thespians in Chief
We think of character, good or bad, as internal. But to Washington and contemporaries, character was how you carried yourself.
80 Years After El Alamein, German Soldiers’ Remains Discovered in Egypt
A local making a campfire stumbled across the bodies of Rommel's Afrika Korps soldiers in the Egyptian desert.
Brunanburh: The Lesser-Known Battle that Unified England
Celts versus Vikings, more than a century before Hastings.
Inside the MiG-25, a Supersonic Fighter Second to All
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 was a product—and victim—of the brief vogue of supersonic nuclear bombers.