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Stetson Invented the Cowboy Hat, Westerners Gave It Wings
Frontier luminaries Buffalo Bill and Tom Mix spread its fame, but everyday cowboys made it their own.
How the Cast of ‘Masters of the Air’ Transformed into the Bloody 100th
The quest by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg to bring World War II to […]
Did This Vietnamese Pilot Really Shoot Down a B-52?
Maybe not, but the Soviets sent him into space anyway.
The Making of a War Film
Chief Military Historian David T. Zabecki shares the following review of War Movie: The American Battle in Cinema, a 2023 documentary from Cantilever films directed by Steve Summers.
This German General Made a Deal with the Devil
German General Ludwig Beck
supported the Nazis—until he didn’t. He paid with his life.
A ‘School of Crime, With Ma Barker Their Teacher’
No argument that Kate Barker and her sons and cohorts were outlaws. But were they really as deviant as Herbert Hoover believed?
The SVD Dragunov Rifle Was a Deadly Menace in Vietnam
U.S. intel agencies allegedly placed a bounty on this formidable weapon.
Was George Armstrong Custer Really A Terrible Strategist?
Did Custer simply walk into disaster at the Little Bighorn? Here’s an in-depth look at his last military decisions.