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5bb91c4d06159f7077658c4282a94325 | https://www.britannica.com/science/evolutionary-botany | Evolutionary botany | Evolutionary botany
Called the father of evolutionary botany, he was the first scientist to synthesize artificially a species of plant that was capable of thriving under natural conditions.
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c9c10bf2ff7b5703432f57ccd57cef43 | https://www.historynet.com/major-general-adalbert-ames-forgotten-man-of-the-20th-maine.htm | Major General Adelbert Ames: Forgotten Man of the 20th Maine | Major General Adelbert Ames: Forgotten Man of the 20th Maine
Maj. Gen. Adelbert Ames. (Library of Congress)
Adelbert Ames preceded Joshua Chamberlain as colonel of the 20th Maine, and had a stellar military career in his own right. Ames was born in Rockland and spent his early years on Atlantic sailing vessels before e... |
fa8d2f937279a83fc4dd8b3be1d8a3bf | https://www.historynet.com/making-the-blue-max.htm | Making ‘The Blue Max’ | Making ‘The Blue Max’
Filmed 50 years ago, long before the advent of CGI, the World War I aviation epic required two air forces built from scratch and stunt pilots willing to risk it all.
Arriving at Ardmore Studios, Dublin, Ireland, in 1965 to begin work on a new 20th Century Fox World War I dogfight movie, stunt pilo... |
4d48f083f4d4a8c419a293fb485f6532 | https://www.historynet.com/marines-bypassed-iwo-jima.htm | What if: the Marines Had Bypassed Iwo Jima? | What if: the Marines Had Bypassed Iwo Jima?
In late September 1944, three of the U.S. Navy’s top admirals met in San Francisco to discuss the next phase of operations in the Central Pacific theater. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz recommended the capture of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. Not only was Okinawa just 350 miles from... |
19c0a3041887331d257cd2bd9605b764 | https://www.historynet.com/mark-i-lewis-gun-the-allies-mobile-equalizer.htm | Mark I Lewis Gun: The Allies’ Mobile Equalizer | Mark I Lewis Gun: The Allies’ Mobile Equalizer
The air-cooled Lewis light machine gun entered service with the infantry and was soon adapted for aerial use. (Weapon #34 The Lewis Gun, by Neil Grant, © Osprey Publishing Ltd.; illustration by Ian Palmer)
The most successful light machine gun of World War I was the brainc... |
115b62101ebaa979975775907ace109a | https://www.historynet.com/mark-noah-but-now-am-found.htm | Mark Noah: But Now Am Found | Mark Noah: But Now Am Found
Mark Noah, president and founder of History Flight. (Randy Glass Studio)
When UPS pilot Mark Noah isn’t flying around the country, he’s often helping to locate the remains of missing American servicemen from World War II in Europe and the Pacific. Noah is the president and founder of History... |
b2ca0ce0820434a1269c948c4453bd4c | https://www.historynet.com/marshall-oppose-recognition-israel.htm | Why did Marshall Oppose the Recognition of Israel? | Why did Marshall Oppose the Recognition of Israel?
Why did Gen. George Marshall oppose the recognition of the state of Israel in 1948?
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Dear Mr. Hill,
George C. Marshall’s official reasons for opposing recognizing the state of Israel in 1948 are well documented. Principally, recognition undermined the... |
ebeba9968083d849d1dc4fc731cbbda1 | https://www.historynet.com/marty-cooper-father-of-the-cellphone.htm | Marty Cooper Found His Calling: The Cellphone | Marty Cooper Found His Calling: The Cellphone
Exclusive interview with inventor who changed the world
MARTIN COOPER, SEMI-RENOWNED since 2009, when The Economist featured him in an article the magazine headlined “Father of the cellphone,” is part engineer, part salesman. In his 29 years at Motorola, Cooper helped that ... |
1ae912015497d1268fc51eccea25e175 | https://www.historynet.com/mary-fields-female-pioneer-in-montana.htm | Mary Fields, A Rough and Tough Black Female Pioneer | Mary Fields, A Rough and Tough Black Female Pioneer
One of the toughest women ever to work in a convent, “Black Mary” had earned the respect and devotion of most of the residents of the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana, and enjoyed more freedom than most white men.
Mary Fields lived a life many of her race and gen... |
368e9636e5be9d5705a54f27f2b7451b | https://www.historynet.com/mason-county-war.htm | Mason County War | Mason County War
The German and Anglo Texans spoke different languages, went to different churches and had different beliefs and habits. That caused some friction, as did the fact that the German immigrants owned much of the best land. Still, the two groups found a good reason to cooperate — their population was small ... |
7e4957b2aaa19fa2eb869a1fc6c5ab16 | https://www.historynet.com/mcclellan-did-he-have-the-slows-or-a-supply-crisis.htm | McClellan: Did He Have the ‘Slows’ or a Supply Crisis? | McClellan: Did He Have the ‘Slows’ or a Supply Crisis?
Though most historians call him a crybaby, documents show Washington deliberately withheld needed matériel
Major General George B. McClellan—the general with the “slows.” Even among those unfamiliar with Civil War history, that is how McClellan is usually remembere... |
525c7fa821fdd8db18d1e11acf9ccb07 | https://www.historynet.com/mcdonnell-f-4-phantom-essential-aircraft-in-the-air-warfare-in-the-middle-east.htm | McDonnell F-4 Phantom: Essential Aircraft in the Air Warfare in the Middle East | McDonnell F-4 Phantom: Essential Aircraft in the Air Warfare in the Middle East
To Israel, it was a technical marvel. To the Shah of Iran, it was the means to dominate the Persian Gulf. When the McDonnell F-4 Phantom reached Tel Aviv in 1969, it marked a dramatic shift–the first time the Israeli state, not a formal all... |
c2a4be917faf0723581dd8ba16698ac9 | https://www.historynet.com/medieval-warfare-how-to-capture-a-castle-with-siegecraft.htm | Medieval Warfare: How to Capture a Castle with Siegecraft | Medieval Warfare: How to Capture a Castle with Siegecraft
The present-day notion of medieval warfare is of longbowmen standing shoulder to shoulder loosing arrows and knights charging across open fields before engaging in brutal hand-to-hand battle. Hastings, Bannockburn, and Agincourt come to mind. Such battles, howev... |
7ff509711b30382b3d4a97306fad65d2 | https://www.historynet.com/meet-me-at-the-canteen.htm | ‘Meet me at the Canteen’ | ‘Meet me at the Canteen’
During World War II American servicemen could take a break at a Stage Door Canteen.
Picture a GI from the heartland, on leave with a day or two in New York City in the summer of 1942. Lonely, he wanders into Times Square and is overwhelmed by the lights, the traffic, the people with someplace t... |
759badf9a66f36eb92bc05b327683c05 | https://www.historynet.com/mein-kampf-the-sequel.htm | Mein Kampf: The Sequel | Mein Kampf: The Sequel
In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler laid out a philosophy that would trigger global war. But a later volume, not published in his lifetime, is at least as shocking as his notorious My Struggle.
Hitler’s second book wasn’t suppressed, only mislaid. In 1949, a former French intelligence officer noted the m... |
27aeaf3f57a6435b88576d2d9b2745e5 | https://www.historynet.com/merkava-mk-ii.htm | Merkava Mk II | Merkava Mk II
Crew: Four (commander, driver, gunner, loader) Combat weight: 70 tons Length (including gun barrel): 29 feet 7 inches Width: 12 feet 2 inches Height: 9 feet Ground clearance: 18 inches Engine: Teledyne Continental AVDS-1790-6A 908 hp V-12 air-cooled diesel Transmission: Ashot Ashkelon hydromechanical auto... |
3c4ceeb29b4bf96bfb82d331fcbcfe20 | https://www.historynet.com/mexican-war-the-proving-ground-for-future-american-civil-war-generals.htm | Mexican War: The Proving Ground for Future American Civil War Generals | Mexican War: The Proving Ground for Future American Civil War Generals
Chatham Roberdeau Wheat would one day lead a famous Louisiana battalion called ‘Wheat’s Tigers into battle for the Confederacy. He would fight and die in the Battle of Gaines’ Mill, Virginia, in 1862. But that was still some 15 years in the future; ... |
28254275505363456ff699cc250e25d7 | https://www.historynet.com/mhq-book-review-fighting-techniques-early-modern-world.htm | MHQ Book Review: Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World | MHQ Book Review: Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World
Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World, AD 1500-1763: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics
Christer Jørgenson, Michael F. Pavkovic, Rob S. Rice, Frederick C. Schneid, and Chris L. Scott, Thomas Dunne Books, 2005, 256 pages, $29.95.
The title says it... |
1eac9a147ddc343ff00e01ec0c5122e4 | https://www.historynet.com/mhq-reviews-cain-at-gettysburg.htm | MHQ Reviews: Cain at Gettysburg | MHQ Reviews: Cain at Gettysburg
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Cain at Gettysburg By Ralph Peters. 432 pp. Forge, 2012. $25.99.
Reviewed by Noah Andre Trudeau
I confess to being a fan of Civil War fiction involving real battles. Over the years I’ve come to recognize three types. One alters some aspect of the engagement... |
56861924684bbfb52439866b2109f026 | https://www.historynet.com/mhq-reviews-notable-books-spring-2012.htm | MHQ Reviews: Notable Books, Spring 2012 | MHQ Reviews: Notable Books, Spring 2012
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Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War: America’s First Couple and the Second War of Independence, by Hugh Howard (Bloomsbury, $30). An entertaining look at the forgotten war, the burning of Washington, and the fourth president’s none-too-effective efforts to command the milita... |
3c013eb665dd08a796fdedccb6a3697e | https://www.historynet.com/mhq-reviews-the-virtual-clausewitz.htm | MHQ Reviews: The Virtual Clausewitz | MHQ Reviews: The Virtual Clausewitz
The theorist in his Prussian uniform. (AKG-Images)Although the ancient Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu is fashionable these days, the preeminent thinker on war is undoubtedly the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, Clausewitz closely studied t... |
02c3d4040d1acc4246b1e5e871bf4f96 | https://www.historynet.com/mian-situ-far-east-to-far-west.htm | Mian Situ: Far East to Far West | Mian Situ: Far East to Far West
Amid a group of Chinese immigrants blasting and chiseling a path through the rugged Sierra Nevada for the Central Pacific Railroad, one man takes a rare and welcome tea break. The details in Cutting a Path, Sierra Nevada, 1866, a 32-by-36-inch oil on canvas by Mian Situ, bring humanity a... |
d20a5d3a7cc03bddfb93d5c8cfd2c2de | https://www.historynet.com/mig-17-produced-north-vietnams-first-jet-to-air-victories.htm | The Mig-17 Produced North Vietnam’s First Jet Air-To-Air Victories | The Mig-17 Produced North Vietnam’s First Jet Air-To-Air Victories
The obsolescent fighter entered Soviet service in 1953
No one saw the two low-flying North Vietnamese MiG-17 fighters approaching the large force of U.S. Navy and Air Force aircraft, which was zeroing in on taking out the North’s Than Hoa Bridge on Apri... |
29cbd9a2a607b0e040a7ccbcc0899f53 | https://www.historynet.com/mig-19-serve-north-vietnamese.htm | Arsenal | The Venerable MiG-19 | Arsenal | The Venerable MiG-19
In 1969, North Vietnam decided to increase its fighter force before the latest lull in the American bombing campaign ended. It had the pilots, all qualified to fly the MiG-21, but not enough of the jets were available, nor would they be until year’s end. Fortunately for Hanoi, China had b... |
2f4c88ba95f9c7480fc12f545521931f | https://www.historynet.com/mig-madness-the-air-war-over-korea.htm | MiG Madness: The Air War over Korea | MiG Madness: The Air War over Korea
“Jabara, you’re shooting at me!” screamed Lieutenant Dick Frailey in a desperate attempt to get Major James Jabara, the third ranking American ace of the Korean War, to break off his attack. But his frantic radio transmission came too late. Jabara had opened up with his .50-caliber m... |
e007b0245a199b6565e2ad16f073b49a | https://www.historynet.com/missingcolonymysteries.htm | The Mystery of the Missing European Colonies | The Mystery of the Missing European Colonies
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The stories of settlements that briefly claimed toeholds in North America before vanishing
Among failed North American colonies, Roanoke, on the mid-Atlantic coast, is the most famous, thanks to legend and tourist attractions near where t... |
e91456f297fafaece2f83a649fc912f0 | https://www.historynet.com/mitchells-masterpiece.htm | What Made the Legendary Spitfire So Successful? | What Made the Legendary Spitfire So Successful?
When the Spitfire entered squadron service 75 years ago, it was exactly the right airplane at the right time for Britain. But if not for the dedication of one man, it might never have been built
The silver aircraft, displaying the familiar lines of history’s most legendar... |
f32f64fcdbbec29ab977cf87e945fa05 | https://www.historynet.com/money-out-of-misery.htm | Money Out Of Misery | Money Out Of Misery
Profiteers on both sides of the war lined their own pockets at their countries’ expense
The Civil War typically evokes images of daring soldiers in blue and gray whose fortitude and self-sacrifice on the battlefield drew the respect and wonder of equally patriotic citizens, all willing to endure hom... |
9a056552ba862fe82b56f58472700017 | https://www.historynet.com/mongol-empire-chormaquan-and-the-mongol-conquest-of-the-middle-east.htm | Mongol Empire: Chormaquan and the Mongol Conquest of the Middle East | Mongol Empire: Chormaquan and the Mongol Conquest of the Middle East
It was 1246, and a Franciscan monk named John de Plano Carpini, the papal envoy to the Mongol court in Karakorum, sat listening very intently to some Russian priests at the coronation of Güyük Khan. Carpini’s mind absorbed every detail as the Russian ... |
6fb167c41e74ec868831252603ebc0d3 | https://www.historynet.com/morses-partner-argued-he-invented-famous-code-to-no-a-vail.htm | Morse’s Partner Argued He Invented Famous Code—to No A-Vail | Morse’s Partner Argued He Invented Famous Code—to No A-Vail
Alfred Vail came up with dots and dashes, but Patent Office gave credit to Samuel Morse, the better known inventor
In 1887, 18 years after his father’s death, Stephen Vail took up metaphorical arms to claim Alfred Vail’s place as a key figure in communications... |
74d721769dadf1135e9813d73e600db2 | https://www.historynet.com/moscows-afghan-morass.htm | Moscow’s Afghan Morass | Moscow’s Afghan Morass
History has singled out certain countries as natural poison to any power with the hubris to invade them. Even if successfully overrun, such regions prove impossible to control, ultimately wearing down each invader until it throws up its hands and leaves. The United States was neither the first no... |
814357d304e1870519aaa6c12b6df636 | https://www.historynet.com/moses-comes-calling.htm | The Legacy of Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter and Spy | The Legacy of Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter and Spy
Harriet Tubman helped plan a South Carolina river raid that freed hundreds of slaves.
When the Civil War began, Harriet Tubman had already been a freedom fighter for more than a decade. As a renowned abolitionist and intrepid Underground Railroad conductor who went ... |
d093d727ad4e1ef853b5a39e4d1c9cde | https://www.historynet.com/moses-ezekiel-hidden-plain-sight.htm | Moses Ezekiel: Hidden In Plain Sight | Moses Ezekiel: Hidden In Plain Sight
Despite being widely unknown among modern Americans, Civil War buffs, and even artists, Moses Ezekiel lived a life of firsts and participated in notable historical events. He was the first Jewish cadet enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), in 1862. As corporal of the gu... |
48ccd5caefb33104917ddf817fe5170a | https://www.historynet.com/mosin-nagant-model-189130-russias-world-war-ii-sniper-rifle.htm | Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30: Russia’s World War II Sniper Rifle | Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30: Russia’s World War II Sniper Rifle
Russia made more than 300,000 Model 1891/30 sniper rifles during the war. (Illustration by Gregory Proch)
The Mosin-Nagant Model 1891 bolt-action rifle combined a simple design by Russian Captain Sergei Mosin with a five-round internal box magazine designed... |
65763c4f8f57b73298cfd3c3879ce543 | https://www.historynet.com/movie-review-ballad-buster-scruggs.htm | Movie Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Movie Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Annapurna Pictures, distributed by Netflix, 133 minutes, 2018, R
The Coen brothers explore mythic absurdity and mortality on the Western frontier in a six-part anthology film that sees them juggling tones—from Looney Toons slapstick to bone-chilli... |
043bd1bf5637041cc0f06d27998ab539 | https://www.historynet.com/mrs-benedict-arnold.htm | Mrs. Benedict Arnold | Mrs. Benedict Arnold
Since the earliest days of the Republic, Benedict Arnold has been the American phrase for traitor. Other villains from Aaron Burr to Aldrich Ames have come and gone through the course of American history, but none have quite matched Arnold’s nefarious reputation. Willard Sterne Randall, however, no... |
b4e517dc18d18e8f3fca298a1adc3354 | https://www.historynet.com/muhammad-the-warrior-prophet.htm | Muhammad: The Warrior Prophet | Muhammad: The Warrior Prophet
The long shadow of Muhammad stretches across centuries of strife to the present. Today an estimated 1.4 billion Muslims around the globe follow his teachings—the word of God as revealed to Muhammad and set down in the Koran—making Islam the world’s second-largest religion behind Christiani... |
630fba078b3bf4128f0a358d8425b8f3 | https://www.historynet.com/mussolini-and-hitler-propaganda-partners-in-crime.htm | Mussolini and Hitler, Propaganda Partners in Crime | Mussolini and Hitler, Propaganda Partners in Crime
We speak so often of World War II as “Hitler’s war” that we sometimes forget he wasn’t alone. At his side was the Italian Duce, Benito Mussolini. They forged as much of a friendship as two emotionally stunted men could manage; they worked together to drag Europe into w... |
0001a862d06fb550ba5c8c2239c26d7e | https://www.historynet.com/mutiny-on-the-rhine.htm | Mutiny on the Rhine | Mutiny on the Rhine
What now? Germanicus Julius Caesar, governor of Tres Galliae and Germania, might have wondered such as he opened the dispatch. It was mid-September in ad 14. A month earlier he’d received in similar fashion the dark and momentous news that Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus, first man of the Roma... |
174a871901a033b2ef68d68726b9bfd2 | https://www.historynet.com/my-parents-gave-me-life-twice.htm | ‘My Parents Gave Me Life Twice’ | ‘My Parents Gave Me Life Twice’
Sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer opens up about her Holocaust losses.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is familiar to most as the disarmingly frank and funny sex therapist and radio and TV personality. Fewer know that the college professor was once a sniper for the Israeli army. But there’s a side t... |
1d547588c28af5862dc8c27c9d5e5866 | https://www.historynet.com/mystery-of-the-ghost-blimp.htm | Mystery of the Ghost Blimp | Mystery of the Ghost Blimp
Early on the morning of Sunday, August 16, 1942, a U.S. Navy blimp prepared to take off from Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay to search for enemy submarines. The United States had entered World War II only nine months earlier, but Japanese subs had sunk at least half a dozen Allied ships ... |
85bba9b9a4bb6ac4a28b4bf0820e6aea | https://www.historynet.com/mystery-pearl-harbor.htm | The Mystery Behind Why Pearl Harbor Happened | The Mystery Behind Why Pearl Harbor Happened
Why did Japan attack the United States Pacific fleet and start a war it could not win?
At 0600 on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Lieutenant Mitsuo Matsuzaki lifted off in his Nakajima B5N2 torpedo bomber from Akagi, one of six Japanese aircraft carriers sailing in loose format... |
f9698b12ea3c039938ea05c2ea6908a3 | https://www.historynet.com/mystery-ship-january-2021.htm | Mystery Ship: January 2021 | Mystery Ship: January 2021
The Vultee XA-41
The Vultee XA-41 was originally ordered by the U.S. Army Air Forces in October 1941 as a dive bomber, in response to Germany’s vaunted Junkers Ju-87 Stuka. After the Stuka’s vulnerability was demonstrated in combat, however, the AAF ordered the XA-41 re-configured as a low-le... |
554794bc1a15e50c345f8dfee49269e4 | https://www.historynet.com/nathaniel-philbrick-history-ashore-afloat.htm | Nathaniel Philbrick: History Ashore and Afloat | Nathaniel Philbrick: History Ashore and Afloat
Nathaniel Philbrick is the celebrated author of several nonfiction books about the American experience, notably military and maritime history. A number of his books have been New York Times best sellers, including In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex... |
5d363fb9a6af501a5c11a98a9db40935 | https://www.historynet.com/national-road-americas-first-highway.htm | National Road: America’s First Interstate | National Road: America’s First Interstate
First federal infrastructure project cut a path to the future
TODAY VEHICULAR TRAFFIC whips effortlessly in both directions across the Appalachian Mountains, which separate the Eastern Seaboard from the American heartland. In early colonial times, however, that low-lying cordil... |
6ce02533438f18c96755d748b87a7374 | https://www.historynet.com/naval-weaponry-italys-mas-torpedo-boats.htm | Naval Weaponry: Italy’s MAS Torpedo Boats | Naval Weaponry: Italy’s MAS Torpedo Boats
Just as aircraft carriers and cruisers of the second half of the 20th century are threatened by small, missile-firing craft, so the giant capital ships of the world’s navies at the beginning of the century faced a deadly enemy in the form of small, fast, nimble torpedo boats.
M... |
2fce80cb57fb2a04824ccc625bce6fcd | https://www.historynet.com/nazi_alphabet.htm | Germany to remove Nazi-era propaganda changes from alphabet | Germany to remove Nazi-era propaganda changes from alphabet
Changes to the phonetic alphabet introduced by the Nazi Party in 1933 will be removed beginning in 2021, the German Institute for Standardization (Deutsches Institute für Normung) has announced.
The phonetic alphabet introduced in Weimar Germany was intended t... |
bc802986c6150f1716b1277868398884 | https://www.historynet.com/nazis-once-worked-and-played-in-hearne-texas.htm | Nazis Once Worked and Played in Hearne, Texas | Nazis Once Worked and Played in Hearne, Texas
During World War II, nearly 78,000 German POWs from North Africa came to be sheltered in the American Southwest.
Hearne, Texas, sits almost in the middle of a triangle with corners located at Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. The two-hour drive through the pan-flat countrys... |
9ba40796b8cb714ac9dd1a00cfe050f6 | https://www.historynet.com/nebelwerfer-adding-smoke-and-mortars-to-the-fog-of-war.htm | Nebelwerfer: Adding Smoke and Mortars to the Fog of War | Nebelwerfer: Adding Smoke and Mortars to the Fog of War
The land-based configuration of the 21cm Nebelwerfer 42 comprised rocket-propelled shells fired from a five-tube launcher on a towed carriage. (Illustration by Gregory Proch)
The Nebelwerfer (“fog thrower”), initially designed by the Wehrmacht as a mortar for laun... |
d5d68c064493f2cdcd69d1adb3279931 | https://www.historynet.com/need-a-gif-to-express-how-youre-feeling-today-the-national-archives-has-got-you-covered.htm | Need a GIF to Express How You’re Feeling Today? The National Archives Has Got You Covered | Need a GIF to Express How You’re Feeling Today? The National Archives Has Got You Covered
Since launching in 2016, the National Archives GIPHY channel has delivered “major historic events, celebrities, National Parks, newsreels, animated patents, dancing sailors, and more,” in the form of GIFs and we, as a nation, are ... |
43bb5301b2810241cf0bf21f14ea1695 | https://www.historynet.com/never-forgotten-accounting-for-american-mias.htm | Never Forgotten: Accounting for American MIAs | Never Forgotten: Accounting for American MIAs
The endless line of soil-filled buckets is passed from hand to hand in the energy-sapping 105-degree heat, then dumped onto thin-meshed screens. From time to time the screens turn up a bone chip, a boot eyelet or some fragmental clue about what happened to fellow servicemen... |
10389bc2dd90655e84aacd1d3b6ab340 | https://www.historynet.com/new-jersey-suffrage-taken-away.htm | Why was New Jersey Suffrage taken Away? | Why was New Jersey Suffrage taken Away?
In their state constitution of 1776, New Jersey allowed single or widowed property-owning women and free black men to vote. This suffrage was taken away by the New Jersey legislature in 1807. Why?
We’ve done a little research on our own and found conflicting information from what... |
3eea8084417bc9e2cc217d4a5abcb021 | https://www.historynet.com/new-survey-finds-a-disturbing-lack-of-holocaust-knowledge-among-millennials-and-gen-z.htm | New Survey Finds A Disturbing Lack of Holocaust Knowledge Among Millennials and Gen Z | New Survey Finds A Disturbing Lack of Holocaust Knowledge Among Millennials and Gen Z
A nationwide survey commissioned by Claims Conference, a nonprofit organization that secures compensation for Holocaust survivors, revealed disturbing findings this Wednesday.
The U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Surv... |
637bd65fab7bb538c12a260bd0a5a6eb | https://www.historynet.com/night-long-knives.htm | Night of the Long Knives | Night of the Long Knives
Adolf Hitler needed Ernst Röhm and his storm troops to climb to power in faction-torn Germany. Then came the day he didn’t need them anymore.
IN THE CHILLY DAWN OF JUNE 30, 1934, TWO BLACK MERCEDES-BENZ automobiles wound their way around the misty western edge of Tegernsee Lake in the rolling B... |
508692f5ef68595420f2cc0815cf85c0 | https://www.historynet.com/nina-willner-author-spy-advocate.htm | Nina Willner: Author, Spy, Advocate | Nina Willner: Author, Spy, Advocate
As a young woman Willner served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer. (Randy Glass Studio)
In Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall author Willner introduces readers to her German-born parents and their families and relates the lives ... |
08e62c495b45da6b4653af6edd8eba5e | https://www.historynet.com/nine-artists-who-lost-their-lives-on-the-battlefield.htm | Nine Artists Who Lost Their Lives on the Battlefield | Nine Artists Who Lost Their Lives on the Battlefield
These nine artists lost their lives on or near the battlefield as they tried to record the realities of war for faraway audiences.
James R. O’Neill
During the American Civil War, Irish-born James R. O’Neill, who at one time or another made his living as an actor, com... |
925fe3a16b8876699ea7d4c067bec66a | https://www.historynet.com/nmaasj.htm | A Shared History | A Shared History
The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., realizes a dream first proposed by Civil War veterans.
One of the most affecting artifacts in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture is also its most delicate: a thin lace-and-linen s... |
fbbf4679bb46548fd948cc954a7c0afd | https://www.historynet.com/november-2020-readers-letters.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Historynet+%28HistoryNet+%7C+From+the+World%27s+Largest+History+Magazine+Publisher%29 | November 2020 Readers’ Letters | November 2020 Readers’ Letters
Trench Art I was visiting my parents recently and came across this match striker box my grandfather (born in 1900, in Kobe, Japan) picked up around 1920 when he visited China. I have discovered it was very common for soldiers to create trench art. I met a veteran who suggested I subscribe... |
fc8c6de819ec9cb562807fbf83e9f1d7 | https://www.historynet.com/october-16-1940-uncle-sams-got-your-number-guys.htm/volunteer-draftees-national-archives | Men whose number had come up were invited to volunteer and be inducted that day. In the early weeks, 71,000 "volunteer draftees" went to the front of the line. (National Archives)
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c5c703390b122d7f6c2438289ab2ac36 | https://www.historynet.com/ok-became-ok-with-americans.htm | Online Exclusive: How ‘OK’ Became OK With Americans | Online Exclusive: How ‘OK’ Became OK With Americans
A 19th-century journalism fad made the abbreviation central to our lingo
OK, that most American of words, started as an inside joke shared by journalists and their readers in the mid-1800s. Like modern social media users hip to lol and omg, in the 1830s readers of Bos... |
5a12b16bdadb720830c3d894d9a4a17b | https://www.historynet.com/oklahomas-deadliest-tornado.htm | Oklahoma’s Deadliest Tornado | Oklahoma’s Deadliest Tornado
It came without warning, raining hell down upon everyone in its path. In a land accustomed to death descending from the sky, the Woodward tornado of April 9, 1947, still ranks as the deadliest ever to hit Oklahoma. In its wake were the bodies of 185 dead, more than 1,000 injured and a myste... |
5337906ce379fc23e91408b4e85e0104 | https://www.historynet.com/old-glorys-final-ill-fated-flight-new-york-to-rome-in-1927.htm | Old Glory’s Final Ill-fated Flight: New York to Rome in 1927 | Old Glory’s Final Ill-fated Flight: New York to Rome in 1927
Transatlantic fever did not die with the successful venture of Charles Lindbergh in Spirit of St. Louis. In fact, his world-acclaimed flight in May 1927 spawned a series of distance-stretching attempts — some successful and others destined to end in tragedy —... |
c41a90e28f27845dd308441e3fe1308d | https://www.historynet.com/oldest-living-marine-veteran-turns-107.htm | Oldest Living Marine Veteran Turns 107 | Oldest Living Marine Veteran Turns 107
When Dorothy Schmidt Cole joined the Marine Corps in July 1943, she wasn’t thinking about the impact her service would have on the Corps or on generations of women to come.
She just wanted that stylish uniform.
“I loved the hats we were wearing,” Cole said in a call with Marine Co... |
0fb2d2181fae854516648ec183a69595 | https://www.historynet.com/omaha-hard-way-conversation-hal-baumgarten.htm | Omaha the Hard Way: Conversation with Hal Baumgarten | Omaha the Hard Way: Conversation with Hal Baumgarten
IT’S AMAZING that Private Hal Baumgarten survived D-Day. The 19-year-old, a member of of Company B, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, was wounded five times. Evacuated on June 7, he had 23 surgeries that inspired him to become a physician; he also was awarded a... |
3e2d72e44ae68ae91aa83a505b879429 | https://www.historynet.com/on-eve-of-missionary-ridge-a-commander-records-his-doubts.htm | Awaiting Orders to Attack Missionary Ridge, a Commander Records His Doubts | Awaiting Orders to Attack Missionary Ridge, a Commander Records His Doubts
But the Eighth Kansas’s spirited charge helped the Army of the Cumberland take the heights
Doubt was on Colonel John A. Martin’s mind as he stared at the Confederate defenses atop Missionary Ridge.
It was November 25, 1863, about 4 p.m., and the... |
abcfd99eb4a6266b1f84328b2ba5a6dd | https://www.historynet.com/on-removing-seminoles.htm | On Removing Seminoles | On Removing Seminoles
Andrew Jackson’s policy of ‘Indian Removal’ ran into trouble in Florida—his name was Osceola.
On Christmas morning 1837 Colonel Zachary Taylor and nearly 900 men—Regulars of the 1st, 4th and 6th Infantry regiments, plus 132 Missouri militiamen and a handful of Delaware Indian guides—cautiously app... |
aafda4327e06ce03687ce9e7f86a9eaa | https://www.historynet.com/one-mans-trash-is-a-world-war-ii-buffs-treasure.htm | One Man’s Trash is a World War II Buff’s Treasure | One Man’s Trash is a World War II Buff’s Treasure
A reader seeks clues about a mysterious veteran.
I rescued this artifact from the garbage in Washington Heights in New York City shortly after returning from an extended combat tour in Vietnam in 1969. I’m a red leg—an artilleryman—and very familiar with 105mm ammunitio... |
2ab1954498c73d1f32a6121f7ebbb7a0 | https://www.historynet.com/one-oh-wonder.htm | One-Oh-Wonder: The Amazing F-101 Voodoo | One-Oh-Wonder: The Amazing F-101 Voodoo
Conceived as a fighter escort for SAC nuclear bombers, then adapted to other roles, McDonnell’s 1,000-mph F-101 Voodoo made its mark operationally as a photoreconnaissance platform and fighter-interceptor.
As Lieutenant Colonel James R. Brickel rolled his RF-101C Voodoo into a ph... |
bc753c844f456f55132c397bd5310190 | https://www.historynet.com/online-exclusive-cindy-walker-spunky-texas-songbird.htm | ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Cindy Walker, Texas Songbird | ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Cindy Walker, Texas Songbird
Spunky singer-songwriter made it big with Western sound
ONE SPRING DAY IN in 1940, Cindy Walker, 22, was riding with parents Aubrey and Oree along Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. The Walkers, originally from around Waco, Texas, but living in Phoenix, Arizon... |
f8527b092bbbedd015aeaa947d83134d | https://www.historynet.com/online-exclusive-tammany-played-fair-and-square-with-colonists.htm | Online Exclusive: Tammany Played Fair and Square With Colonists | Online Exclusive: Tammany Played Fair and Square With Colonists
The Lenape chief Tamanend was a trusted negotiator and brought peace to the Delaware Valley for 70 years
If there’s one thing people know about the name Tammany, it’s that it was once tied to New York City’s powerful, albeit corrupt, political machine, Tam... |
e124564964a0f8149e950332bc077be6 | https://www.historynet.com/online-exclusive-the-original-broadway-parade.htm | ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Original Broadway Parade | ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Original Broadway Parade
A sunny day, the Constitution ratified, rivers of ale, and marching societies—the only thing missing was ticker tape
THE TRADITION OF THE PARADE in the United States has among its origins a July 23, 1788, extravaganza in New York City. The Grand Federal Procession featured... |
1c745ae01073d2459c051d68e442ab59 | https://www.historynet.com/operation-bagration-soviet-offensive-of-1944.htm | Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944 | Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944
Geographically, it dwarfed the campaign for Normandy. In four weeks, it inflicted greater losses on the German army than the Wehrmacht had suffered in five months at Stalingrad. With more than 2.3 million men, six times the artillery and twice the number of tanks that launc... |
9de4afb10da1eeca08ecc8510ec17ca1 | https://www.historynet.com/operation-cornflakes-how-the-oss-brought-allied-propaganda-straight-to-the-doorsteps-of-germany.htm | Operation Cornflakes: How the OSS Brought Allied Propaganda Straight to the Doorsteps of Germany | Operation Cornflakes: How the OSS Brought Allied Propaganda Straight to the Doorsteps of Germany
Seventy-five years ago, American P-38 fighter-bombers embarked on an unusual sortie dubbed “Operation Cornflakes”. The twin-engine fighters were tasked with dropping an unconventional payload, as detailed by Tyler Bamford o... |
1c8f9d1248d9f81ab955e207a00c7bae | https://www.historynet.com/our-good-franks-patriotic-song.htm | ‘Our Good Frank’s Patriotic Song’ | ‘Our Good Frank’s Patriotic Song’
On September 1, 1814, after the British had left the city of Washington in flames, the noted D.C. lawyer Francis Scott Key rode from his stately home in Georgetown to the White House. Key, 35, came to the torched presidential mansion to ask permission to undertake a delicate mission in... |
6c70e2664e0268f2c638dda95f10c7b2 | https://www.historynet.com/p-38-flunked-europe.htm | Why the P-38 Flunked in Europe | Why the P-38 Flunked in Europe
Celebrated as one of the Pacific War’s best fighters, Lockheed’s Lightning earned a less-than enviable reputation in European air combat.
The American fighter pilot spotted two indistinct shapes cutting diagonally across a road just slightly above and in front of him. They were blemishes ... |
2e047d55e0e91554ea77b92c25b04d1f | https://www.historynet.com/p-t-barnum-greatest-showman-earth.htm | P.T. Barnum – The Greatest Showman on Earth | P.T. Barnum – The Greatest Showman on Earth
How the emperor of hoopla got his start at scamming
PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM was a salesman and a showman, a hustler and a huckster. He sold Bibles for a while but he made more money selling tickets to see a mermaid that was actually the tail of a fish to a female orangutan’s to... |
bb6c5d3580b9c5921619e8a5e9195c24 | https://www.historynet.com/pacific-tramps.htm | Pacific Tramps | Pacific Tramps
On December 7, 1941, 12 unarmed B-17s on their way to reinforce the Philippines arrived over Oahu to find Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field under attack.
Six, led by Major Truman Landon, were from the 19th Bomb Group’s 38th Reconnaissance Squadron. Two of them, Landon’s 41-2413 and 41-2408 piloted by Lieuten... |
033b503d932ef1463ea67939a6bf2c34 | https://www.historynet.com/panzers-in-russia.htm | Panzers in Russia | Panzers in Russia
(Img: National Archives) Panzer is a shortened term for Panzerkampfwagen, meaning “armored combat vehicle” or essentially, “tank.” There were six versions of the Panzer produced during the 1930s and 1940s. All six of the newly designed tanks were used by the Nazis during World War II. In this video, P... |
e169bf006c7b230b15001fe9b7432b18 | https://www.historynet.com/paper-airplanes.htm | Paper Airplanes | Paper Airplanes
On the eve of World War II, the U.S. Army Air Corps ordered hundreds of medium bombers right off the drawing board—before they had even been test flown.
In the late 1930s, U.S. Army Air Corps doctrine had been centered on using multi-engine bombers primarily as long-range strategic weapons. The tactical... |
dedd90e3f8d46f18b52c78a3a98659bd | https://www.historynet.com/parcel-post-freedom.htm | Parcel post to freedom | Parcel post to freedom
Henry Brown took the extraordinary step of mailing himself to Philly.
The baggage handlers ignored the “This Side Up With Care” label and rudely shoved the wooden box onto the steamship deck with those words exactly on the bottom. They would certainly have been surprised to learn that inside the ... |
8cd82681d62914cebcc29546225eeac5 | https://www.historynet.com/patrick-connor-and-the-battle-of-bear-river.htm | Patrick Connor and the Battle of Bear River | Patrick Connor and the Battle of Bear River
Patrick Edward Connor, a fiery, ambitious Irishman of 42, was unhappy. He had served with a Texas regiment under the command of Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston in the Mexican War, but before the war ended he had resigned his commission and joined the gold hunters in California... |
60c5a16a5c07d71092d08b54a90e8f25 | https://www.historynet.com/patton-m48a3-battle-tank.htm | Arsenal | Patton M-48A3 | Arsenal | Patton M-48A3
Many believed armor had little utility in Vietnam, but Marine and Army combat experience proved that there was no substitute for the shock and firepower tanks brought to the battlefield. Used primarily in the infantry support role, the M48A3 tank was America’s main battle tank in Vietnam from th... |
13c1bb2daaa8d6b97d63894d2f5faca5 | https://www.historynet.com/paul-reveres-true-account-of-the-midnight-ride.htm | Paul Revere’s True Account of the Midnight Ride | Paul Revere’s True Account of the Midnight Ride
The enduring image of a lone Patriot nightrider rousing the countryside to arms has been burnished in American poems, books, and movies for two and a quarter centuries. The underlying message is always the same: A single brave man can make all the difference. In a letter ... |
3f216860a01099ca17bdd1191bed66e4 | https://www.historynet.com/payoff-tokyo-bay.htm | Payoff in Tokyo Bay | Payoff in Tokyo Bay
In September 1945 General Douglas MacArthur commanded center stage aboard the battleship Missouri as Japan’s surrender ended World War II.
At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1945—days after atomic bombs incinerated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the nuclear age—reporters crow... |
980b40f651bb30841be55661ee1a5dec | https://www.historynet.com/pearl-harbor-mystery.htm | Pearl Harbor Mystery | Pearl Harbor Mystery
Military History Editor Stephen Harding, author of “Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor,” discusses his new book with Military Times Executive Editor Tony Lombardo.
function mergeDefaults(dst, src) { function isMergeable(y) { return Array.isArr... |
2a39c26463a3aaf0cc02025d21f3f36f | https://www.historynet.com/peek-inside-a-political-cartoonists-sketchbook.htm | Peek Inside a Political Cartoonist’s Vietnam Sketchbook | Peek Inside a Political Cartoonist’s Vietnam Sketchbook
With a few stark lines on paper, cartoonist Gene Basset captures colliding cultures
IN 1965 GENE BASSET shipped out for Vietnam, not as yet another American GI but as a political cartoonist for the Scripps Howard News Service. But like a GI, Basset found out what ... |
6776da99091e85ab173c50a5a27b714e | https://www.historynet.com/picketts-charge-hit-where-it-was-aiming.htm | Pickett’s Charge Hit Where It Was Aiming | Pickett’s Charge Hit Where It Was Aiming
Lee’s orders to Longstreet were to strike the Union line on the open slope of Cemetery Ridge (but Yankee guns interfered)
When I began at Gettysburg National Military Park in the summer of 1979, it was accepted by the rangers, guides, and historians that the July 3 Confederate a... |
6aca71dfc3a7e2b721184a0f5dd976bc | https://www.historynet.com/pirates-prompt-cooperation-of-the-u-s-and-royal-navies.htm | Pirates Prompt Cooperation of the U.S. and Royal Navies | Pirates Prompt Cooperation of the U.S. and Royal Navies
Following a remarkable action along Cuba’s northern coast on September 29, 1822, U.S. Navy Commander Stephen Cassis wrote a letter to British Petty Officer William Geary:
Sir,
Permit me to tender to you my acknowledgment for the cooperation of His Britannic Majest... |
98d0075cd7a3dd4deb191c0d905ceb99 | https://www.historynet.com/plenty-of-fight-left-the-vicksburg-campaign.htm | Plenty of Fight Left: The Vicksburg Campaign | Plenty of Fight Left: The Vicksburg Campaign
Thanks to Timothy B. Smith, the past decade has been a good one for anyone with an interest in the great campaigns conducted by Ulysses S. Grant that restored Union control of western Tennessee and the Mississippi River. Here, Smith makes another superb contribution to schol... |
ff7ce6ad97a1675a013a8d94397d71b5 | https://www.historynet.com/pod1002.htm | Picture of the Day: October 2 | Picture of the Day: October 2
In Derek Rush’s 1997 colored-pencil drawing Doc’s Business, southern born Doc Holliday flashes a tool of the gunfighter trade in front of one of his usual workplaces — a saloon. The West’s most famous dentist, born John Henry Holliday, let his practice slide in Dodge City in 1878 and devot... |
557b5fd2c6838ab788f9dcabb4022e45 | https://www.historynet.com/polks-mexican-war.htm | Polk’s Mexican War | Polk’s Mexican War
The 1846–48 Mexican War redrew the political map of North America, effectively destroying Mexico as a powerful nation and bringing California and the Southwest into the United States. To many contemporaries the conflict seemed a justifiable expression of American “Manifest Destiny.” Modern commentato... |
4c56f17e033d307d3de24898bf9ae4ea | https://www.historynet.com/porter.htm | Porter’s Private War: The USS Essex in Polynesia | Porter’s Private War: The USS Essex in Polynesia
On the morning of Oct. 25, 1813, the inhabitants of Nuku Hiva—the largest of 15 islands comprising Polynesia’s remote Marquesas—awoke to the startling sight of a six-ship flotilla approaching from the east across the cobalt-blue South Pacific. While the islanders were ac... |
a5ec420e437cdb5cf2bfd0519416df6e | https://www.historynet.com/praying-with-robert-e-lee.htm | Praying with Robert E. Lee | Praying with Robert E. Lee
As was true of all Southern whites, those living in Richmond, Virginia, were struggling to come to terms with their changed circumstances in the spring of 1865. In the space of only a few weeks, they had witnessed the total collapse of their political, economic and social order. For residents... |
01e1ab89d47db4df48fd77b312b6a600 | https://www.historynet.com/pre-civil-war-peace-conference.htm | Pre Civil War Peace Conference | Pre Civil War Peace Conference
Give Peace a Chance: As secession fever spreads through the South, political patriarchs try to avert war—-but at what price?
With the results of the bitter 1860 election in the books, a nation turned its anxious eyes and ears to the new president-elect, hoping for words that might prevent... |
d275f6df44500110d748c4bc1cae279d | https://www.historynet.com/punching-evolution-ejection-seat.htm | Punching Out: Evolution of the Ejection Seat | Punching Out: Evolution of the Ejection Seat
The faster airplanes go, the faster we need to get out of them.
If necessity is the mother of invention, combat is its father. Little more than a month after Pearl Harbor, when the United States was belatedly gearing up for war, Germany was already testing jet fighters.
In J... |
dfeaca71b529aa973b542ee55f5c186d | https://www.historynet.com/punji-stakes-pointed-end-to-a-foot-patrol.htm | Punji Stakes: Pointed End to a Foot Patrol | Punji Stakes: Pointed End to a Foot Patrol
Pits lined with punji stakes were a simple but effective means of deterring or disabling invading soldiers. (Illustration by Gregory Proch; inset pages from U.S. Department of Defense)
From the first ancient Chinese invasion to the final withdrawal of American troops from Indo... |
fbb2304e4c5ae93bfdda2423a83e439a | https://www.historynet.com/putting-a-face-on-the-burden-of-war-lincoln-face-morph.htm | Putting a face on the burden of war: Lincoln Face Morph | Putting a face on the burden of war: Lincoln Face Morph
It’s still the most stressful job on the planet, aging the occupants of the White House well before their time. Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady and others left a photographic record of the changes in Abraham Lincoln’s appearance as he made the transition from a tr... |
a2bdd84e9efb50b364e000c867708402 | https://www.historynet.com/question-wwi-injuries.htm | Question on WWI Injuries | Question on WWI Injuries
I have been a civilian trauma nurse for 30 years. I was watching a documentary on WWI. The camera panned around 30 + soldiers laying on cots. All of them had the same facial injuries & mostly on the same side of their faces.
It looked like an axe had caused a deep gash in their mouth. Are these... |
5869b60edb3fb915fc362b46088eaad2 | https://www.historynet.com/questions-about-diseases-in-the-california-gold-rush.htm | Questions about Diseases in the California Gold Rush | Questions about Diseases in the California Gold Rush
I have a few questions about the history of California and the pneumonia epidemic associated with the Wild Wild West and medicine before the antibiotic was created. Do you have any information about who those doctors were or why their abusive doctoring was widespread... |
2f729d97450943f607f63c12f0d8db7a | https://www.historynet.com/questions-about-the-me-109.htm | Questions about the Me-109 | Questions about the Me-109
Dear Mr. Guttman,
I wrote about the Avia S-199’s role in Israel’s war of independence. I’m presently putting together a follow-on article about this troubled fighter, which, as you know, was derived from the Me-109. Hence my question(s): Do you have any information or numbers about the Luftwa... |
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