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What’s It Like to Curate a World-Class Firearms Museum?
At any given time Danny Michael, curator of the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, has 4,200 firearms on display.
Charging in the Dark, the Gallant Attack of These Gunners Led to the Breakthrough at Petersburg
These Rhode Island cannoneers were all recognized for their valor on that April 1865 day.
In 1807 a French Officer Field-Tested an Artillery Tactic That Remained Decisive for More Than a Century
The breakthrough came during the Battle of Friedland, the victory that decided the War of the Fourth Coalition in Napoleon's favor.
Wyatt Earp May Have Met His Match in Con Man Soapy Smith’s Alaska
The legendary lawman’s key to survival in gold rush Alaska was to keep a low profile.
Mystery Ship: Can you identify this winged Quasimodo?
This early French jet may have looked odd, but it had reasons.
An Epic Study of America’s Bloodiest Day — Decades in the Making
A new book explores every facet of the September 1862 battle.
Airplane Kits Are Great—But Sometimes the Art on the Box is Even Better
These artists made model kits fly off the shelves...
How the Hungarian Hussars Started a Fashion Craze
A multipurpose coat for daring mounted warriors became vogue both on and off the battlefield.