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421c8c45d42790c946f9641033c29fca | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-book-review-dear-mr-stalin.htm | WWII Book Review: My Dear Mr. Stalin | WWII Book Review: My Dear Mr. Stalin
My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
edited by Susan Butler (foreword by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.), Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2006, $35
In My Dear Mr. Stalin, Susan Butler has collected all of the correspondence b... |
eee79966a39521f8358347636f64ac32 | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-book-review-hitlers-panzers.htm | WWII Book Review: Hitler’s Panzers | WWII Book Review: Hitler’s Panzers
Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare
By Dennis Showalter. 400 pp. Berkley, 2009. $25.95.
The German army’s blitzkrieg and the tanks that carried it out have an almost mythological place in military history. In Hitler’s Panzers, Dennis Showalter seeks to ... |
ce7ec8c9e5b8617008cdcf150a3079bc | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-book-review-nazi-games.htm | WWII Book Review: Nazi Games | WWII Book Review: Nazi Games
Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936
By David Clay Large. 401 pp. Norton, 2007. $27.95.
While kick-starting the 1896 comeback of the Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin waxed dreamy about “the eternal Hellenism that has not ceased to light the way of the centuries.” But as David Clay Large... |
3c9724e58a32023ca54de658ce56c577 | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-maps-as-a-fashion-trend-because-sure-why-not.htm | WWII Escape Maps Might be the World’s Most Unique Fashion Statement | WWII Escape Maps Might be the World’s Most Unique Fashion Statement
Most brides opt to wear white on their wedding day. Some, like Bianca Jagger, might even rock a wedding suit. Then in 2016 there was Hester Cox, a U.K. bride who opted for neither as she strode down the aisle in a custom gown made from vintage World Wa... |
e03182c71e8cdd6da82c0c2697d31ecd | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-2-3-things-know.htm | WWII Review: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him | WWII Review: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
Director/writer: Malte Ludin Documentary; color; 2007 German/English subtitles 85 minutes
This stark German film traces a son’s search for the truth of his father’s World War II record. The result: a low-budget inversion of Flags of Our Fathers ... |
4c190aa731dd6bdf2313b17179451f12 | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-apocalypse-hitler.htm | WWII Review: Apocalypse- Hitler | WWII Review: Apocalypse- Hitler
Apocalypse: Hitler
Directed by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle. 110 minutes. Entertainment One, 2012. $19.98.
How did Adolf Hitler—failed art student, rootless drifter, just one of millions of unemployed ex-soldiers nursing a nagging sense of betrayal in Weimar Germany—morph into the... |
55d954147e4fa827b6141b86bbca4abe | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-black-book.htm | WWII Review: Black Book | WWII Review: Black Book
Black Book (2006)
Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, et al. Time: 145 minutes. Color. Dutch, German, English, Hebrew (English subtitles)
In this hyperdrive pulp fiction set in 1944–45 Holland, Rachel Stein, a pretty Jewish singer turned Resistance member after her ... |
51f0aaaae6b2a6adfe0cae5073b9bf68 | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-downfall-2005.htm | WWII Review: Downfall (2005) | WWII Review: Downfall (2005)
Downfall (2005)
Director: Oliver Hirshbiegel. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Mattes, 155 minutes Color, Dubbed in English
What makes Downfall so compelling is its humanity. With harrowing understatement, the camera’s unflinching gaze sees the people filling... |
f9b7373f270a05341eb119ea82737817 | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-dresden-inferno.htm | WWII Review: Dresden- The Inferno | WWII Review: Dresden- The Inferno
Dresden: The Inferno (2006)
Director: Roland Suso Richter, 180 minutes, Color, German
The first fictional film made in Germany to face the ongoing debate, Inferno Festival in fall 2006, then aired on Ger- was screened at the Berlin Film Dresden: The man TV in March 2007. While it portr... |
c2dd5e97fc22a276a4344199ae2bc521 | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-indigenes-days-glory.htm | WWII Review: Indigénes (Days of Glory) | WWII Review: Indigénes (Days of Glory)
Indigénes (Days of Glory)
a film by Rachid Bouchareb, released by The Weinstein Company
Think of Days of Glory, the previously untold story of French colonial troops in World War II and an Oscar contender for Best Foreign Film, as a cross between Band of Brothers and A Soldier’s ... |
298b721f62dcdf9ad138ae3588b6342b | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-naked-dead.htm | WWII Review: The Naked and the Dead | WWII Review: The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
Director: Raoul Walsh Cast: Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey, Aldo Ray, Joey Bishop, Lili St. Cyr 131 minutes Black & white
Toward the end of the war in the Pacific, a sensitive, idealistic lieutenant (Cliff Robertson) serves under a power-freak general (... |
ec29af1f033d04f74f4e99b19935ed89 | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-national-museum-marine-corps.htm | WWII Review: National Museum of the Marine Corps | WWII Review: National Museum of the Marine Corps
National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Va. Info@usmcmuseum.org
Step inside this steel-sided room, and you are in a Higgins boat headed for a beach erupting in shellfire. Battleships blast their 16-inch guns from the waves nearby. Gull-winged Corsairs roar close o... |
831f9f1e729adeea6ad83b4f2db093dd | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-war.htm | WWII Review: The War | WWII Review: The War
The War
Director: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Time: 15 hours. Color/B&W
A few dozen eyewitnesses to history, plucked from four American towns, wend their sometimes intersecting ways through history’s largest epic. Like leitmotifs in a Wagnerian opera, their voices recur throughout The War as their st... |
7a56564e07b3dbfb8937c5e755a64331 | https://www.historynet.com/wwii-review-white-light-black-rain.htm | WWII Review: White Light, Black Rain | WWII Review: White Light, Black Rain
White Light, Black Rain
Director: Steven Okazaki Time: 86 minutes. Color/B&W.
The controversial lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are endless, but this subtle yet striking movie touches many of them. Peabody and Academy Award winner Okazaki interviews Japanese survivors and American... |
061b278983c5dbc414fcb3f24b237da4 | https://www.historynet.com/yakovlev-yak-15-stalins-stopgap-jet-fighter.htm | The Soviets’ Surprising Stopgap Jet Fighter | The Soviets’ Surprising Stopgap Jet Fighter
Yakovlev’s simple approach to developing the Soviet Union’s first jet fighter worked remarkably well.
As World War II drew to a close, all the major combatants except the Soviet Union were readying new turbojet-powered fighters for operational use. That state of affairs was u... |
d4ccd663088c6e15cb86a91c84f0090d | https://www.historynet.com/yellow-berets-how-the-vietnam-war-led-some-physicians-to-nobel-prizes.htm | Yellow Berets: How the Vietnam War led some physicians to Nobel Prizes | Yellow Berets: How the Vietnam War led some physicians to Nobel Prizes
During the Vietnam War, there was a compulsory draft of American physicians. One of the few alternatives to service in Vietnam was a position in the Public Health Service. The limited number of such appointments made them highly competitive—especial... |
d39fc9862a91f226d7496c9f5f776c7b | https://www.historynet.com/zephaniah-kingsley-champion-of-free-blacks.htm | Zephaniah Kingsley: Champion of Free Blacks | Zephaniah Kingsley: Champion of Free Blacks
Roving merchant and slave trader approved of bondage system but saw freedmen as linchpin
In a 1770 history of the Indies, French Jesuit Guillaime Raynal wrote, “Long distance voyages have given rise to a new species of nomad. I am referring to those men who travel to so many... |
2a246aefe92c3264e123b475b6058291 | https://www.historynet.com/zulu-platoons-final-fight-in-vietnam.htm | Zulu Platoon’s Final Fight in Vietnam | Zulu Platoon’s Final Fight in Vietnam
‘It was a dumb operation,’ said U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Grant Telfer. ‘We had gone through the entire six-month deployment without having anyone wounded.’ Yet at the last minute, shortly before the members of Telfer’s Zulu Platoon of SEAL (sea-air-land) commandos were due to... |
39645b85fdc4453456a5b2b7183147bc | https://articles.historynet.com/10-great-pow-escapes.htm | 10 Great POW Escapes | 10 Great POW Escapes
Capture is an occupational hazard for soldiers and escape is a POW’s duty—some even succeed with imagination and style.
Everyone loves a great escape. In the civilian world even the nastiest criminal gets our grudging respect for busting out. And prisoners of war, enemies as well as allies, are dou... |
eedb143bdc25cb45b2e611f8cad283ac | https://articles.historynet.com/10-questions-just-causes-aaron-sheehan-dean.htm | 10 Questions: Just Causes Aaron Sheehan-Dean | 10 Questions: Just Causes Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Guerrilla raids and massacres of innocents were condemned as violations of the rules of war
The Civil War, which cost roughly 750,000 lives, including more than 200,000 battlefield deaths, remains America’s deadliest conflict and is considered history’s first “total war.” In... |
15d31f8b4a2c86133f069aeae3ca03a1 | https://articles.historynet.com/100-greatest-western-movies.htm | 100 Greatest Western Movies | 100 Greatest Western Movies
Western movies have allowed audiences to ride the dusty trails for over a century. From the film Stagecoach. Jerry Tavin, Courtesy Everett Collection.
Like steam locomotives and town squares, Western movies are an indelible part of America’s heritage. Indeed, they are inextricably linked to ... |
129512305bb063464766e35b5fff1145 | https://articles.historynet.com/13745462.htm | Farragut Captures New Orleans, 1862 | Farragut Captures New Orleans, 1862
At the outset of the Civil War, New Orleans, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, was the Confederacy’s largest city and port of trade. Its defenses were centered downriver at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the river in between choked with sandbars that would inhibit the passage o... |
e630283536c783a1106c098ea7f82a1e | https://articles.historynet.com/13747719.htm | Behind the Mind of Ho Chi Minh | Behind the Mind of Ho Chi Minh
How Ho Chi Minh developed his thoughts and theories on war
In the 1960s as Americans began to hear more and more about a place unfamiliar to most of them, they were also learning the name of a man added to a growing list of leaders carrying the banner of communism and threatening Western ... |
04038deaf4689f1cde62b8a659a39782 | https://articles.historynet.com/13753287.htm | ‘Traitors Must Die’: Harry Rée and the SOE | ‘Traitors Must Die’: Harry Rée and the SOE
Harry Rée guided French resistance groups in a series of dramatic sabotage operations. Then he was ordered to kill a Gestapo informer.
Born in Manchester, England, in 1914, Harry Rée was the son of an industrial chemist from a Jewish family and an American-born heiress to the ... |
5bc2e37a81272df4c10ede9cc11be2eb | https://articles.historynet.com/40th-tet-anniversary-battle-saigon.htm | 40th Tet Anniversary: The Battle for Saigon | 40th Tet Anniversary: The Battle for Saigon
Viet Cong infiltrators had a host of key objectives scattered throughout the Saigon Circle intended to ignite the ‘General Uprising’.
On Christmas Day, 1967, Colonel Nam Truyen, the commander of the 9th Viet Cong Division, slipped into Saigon with forged papers identifying hi... |
d79c0eb0ba36dc603d3543e76b95b581 | https://articles.historynet.com/a-perfect-weapon-the-m109-self-propelled-155-mm-howitzer.htm | A Perfect Weapon? The M109 Self-Propelled 155 mm Howitzer | A Perfect Weapon? The M109 Self-Propelled 155 mm Howitzer
In the summer and fall of 1967, the 4th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, equipped with the M109 howitzer, was firing almost daily at North Vietnamese artillery positions on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Vietnams... |
798aeb8dbf547d848c72e9546207c50f | https://articles.historynet.com/a-short-history-of-the-filibuster.htm | A Short History of the Filibuster | A Short History of the Filibuster
Filibusters tend to be more infuriating than inspirational. After talking non-stop for 10 hours and 35 minutes, Huey Long informed his fellow senators that he wasn’t a bit tired. “I would just as soon stay here and go ten more hours,†he said. “I am in hog heaven here discussin... |
8c4a57156c188e8d84dbf276f68e4f92 | https://articles.historynet.com/a-time-to-kill.htm | A Time to Kill | A Time to Kill
Fearing the apocalypse was near, Thomas of Marle and the knights of the First Crusade unleashed holy hell on Jerusalem.
The climactic battle of the First Crusade ended with the victors bathing in the blood of the vanquished. On July 15, 1 of Jerusalem, the site of Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection an... |
620d08e4d9f402266b286c8318d35a15 | https://articles.historynet.com/a-warm-welcome-turns-cold-in-nazi-occupied-ukraine.htm | A Warm Welcome Turns Cold in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine | A Warm Welcome Turns Cold in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 is remembered as Hitler’s most catastrophic military mistake. But in 1941 it didn’t seem to be a mistake at all. “Everyone thought at the beginning that the war will result in the complete defeat of the Soviet Union,... |
a1080393d83b43ca678e3465a4bfcda7 | https://articles.historynet.com/ace-aces-richard-bong.htm | Ace of Aces: Richard I. Bong | Ace of Aces: Richard I. Bong
Quiet, shy and introverted on the ground; aggressive, hostile and fearless in the air.
Major General George C. Kenney had had enough. Ever since a certain pilot arrived at Hamilton Field for combat training on May 6, 1942, he had been using nearby San Francisco as his private playground, lo... |
7a79a049bdc0d84a0f5b7625d97882c9 | https://articles.historynet.com/acw-review-harpers-weekly-online.htm | ACW Review: Harper’s Weekly Online | ACW Review: Harper’s Weekly Online
www.sonofthesouth.net
www.harpweek.com
During and after the Civil War, the publishers of Harper’s Weekly strove for editorial and illustrative excellence—famously printing the artwork of Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast—but the magazine was also not afraid to express its overarching opin... |
4f374f3ae6699ba4af42fcfbfbe55c83 | https://articles.historynet.com/acw-review-ride-devil.htm | ACW Review: Ride With the Devil | ACW Review: Ride With the Devil
Ride With the Devil (1999)
Directed by Ang Lee
It may seem curious that director Ang Lee would follow up his critically acclaimed movie The Ice Storm, an exposé of middle-class suburban social dysfunction, with a morally complex coming-of-age tale set during the “dirty war” between Confe... |
e6775ff242025f2265a21b7b256e3ff8 | https://articles.historynet.com/airmail-pilots.htm | The Suicide Club | The Suicide Club
The pioneering pilots who delivered the U.S. mail in open-cockpit biplanes had one of the world’s most dangerous jobs.
Post Office pilot James Hill once needed three whole cigars and part of another just to find New Jersey. Hill had taken off from the airport in Cleveland, bound for New Brunswick on hi... |
2805da428bce2382da7c04f34c781f52 | https://articles.historynet.com/alex-kershaw-the-first-wave-on-d-day.htm | Alex Kershaw: The First Wave on D-Day | Alex Kershaw: The First Wave on D-Day
Alex Kershaw
At 12:15 a.m. on June 6, 1944, Capt. Frank Lillyman jumped out of a C-47 Skytrain over Normandy. Moments later he became the first American paratrooper to set boots on the ground in France for the historic assault of “Fortress Europe.” British writer Alex Kershaw’s The... |
ca3b35e90872c589f97d8dbf5be836f8 | https://articles.historynet.com/allied-ace-of-aces-rene-fonck.htm | Allied Ace of Aces: René Fonck | Allied Ace of Aces: René Fonck
‘He is a tiresome braggart, and even a bore, but in the air, a slashing rapier,’ wrote Claude Haegelen of squadron mate René Fonck—and he was one of Fonck’s best friends.
When Germans, Americans, Italians or Belgians think of World War I aviation, the first names that come to mind are usu... |
508341e37c2d70a2368f9854e8d58b59 | https://articles.historynet.com/alpha-6-just-disappeared-what-happened-to-the-companys-captain.htm | Alpha 6 ‘Just Disappeared’: What Happened to the Company’s Captain? | Alpha 6 ‘Just Disappeared’: What Happened to the Company’s Captain?
On Feb. 14, 1968, in the midst of the communists’ countrywide Tet Offensive, my company, Alpha, in the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division, was tasked to be the security force for the headquarters of Military Assistance C... |
70fb220ff07c43016071757bcdac7305 | https://articles.historynet.com/alvin-york-and-the-meuse-argonne-offensive.htm | Alvin York and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive | Alvin York and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive
October 8, 1918, was a hard morning for the 2nd Württemberg Landwehr Division at Châtel Chéhéry, France. The German division’s infantry regiments, the 122nd, 120th and 125th, were barely holding onto their piece of the Argonne Forest against an attack by the U.S. Army’s 82nd D... |
6545ca517a84759c8d072132330a3f46 | https://articles.historynet.com/america-fought-a-brief-naval-battle-with-japan-during-the-civil-war-what-effect-did-this-have-on-foreign-policy.htm | America fought a brief naval battle with Japan during the Civil War-what effect did this have on foreign policy? | America fought a brief naval battle with Japan during the Civil War-what effect did this have on foreign policy?
America fought a brief naval battle with Japan during the Civil War-what effect did this have on foreign policy?
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45a6b53a7d369d4f4a610f34b2ea6274 | https://articles.historynet.com/american-history-book-review-americas-second-revolution.htm | American History Book Review: America’s Second Revolution | American History Book Review: America’s Second Revolution
America’s Second Revolution: How George Washington Defeated Patrick Henry and Saved the Nation
by Harlow Giles Unger, Wiley, 267 pp., $27.95
Patrick Henry, the greatest orator of his day, boycotted the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and marshaled a steady str... |
13031bfdd897ffa036fdf85a453460b9 | https://articles.historynet.com/american-history-book-review-inventing-george-washington.htm | American History Book Review: Inventing George Washington | American History Book Review: Inventing George Washington
Inventing George Washington: America’s Founder, in Myth & Memory
By Edward G. Lengel; Harper
The Father of Our Country would be mightily bemused by his metamorphoses in American mythology. His dizzying transformations over the last two centuries make it seem lik... |
652b3a7d2a024d0b14c6d51d4979870f | https://articles.historynet.com/american-history-letter-editor-august-2008.htm | American History Letter from the Editor- August 2008 | American History Letter from the Editor- August 2008
Our Father’s House
George Washington’s monumental feats as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and our nation’s first president are recounted time and again in historical chronicles, but his private aspirations are most vividly on display at the dream hous... |
99320f675deff3d335e027e937beac51 | https://articles.historynet.com/americas-civil-war-january-2001-letters.htm | America’s Civil War: January 2001 Letters | America’s Civil War: January 2001 Letters
Dam No. 5
Please note that the picture on page 54-55 of the September 2000 issue is mislabeled. The canal boat is parked in the intake lock at Dam No. 3 on the C&O Canal, a long way from Dam No. 5–in fact, more than 44 miles. The lock pictured served as both a feeder lock and a... |
844ff7cc7bb3685a0cb5772e6cc06ec5 | https://articles.historynet.com/americas-civil-war-july-1998-from-the-editor.htm | America’s Civil War: July 1998 From the Editor | America’s Civil War: July 1998 From the Editor
Even the best of spies–as Timothy Webster discovered–can find themselves holding a losing hand.
When Indiana Sergeant Thomas Harter jumped into the Rapidan River and swam back toward Union lines to warn Major General John Pope of the mortal danger his army faced, he knew f... |
eb7f9213c01e600ddd5a3cd2882194af | https://articles.historynet.com/americas-civil-war-may-2001-letters.htm | America’s Civil War: May 2001 Letters | America’s Civil War: May 2001 Letters
Preservation Donation
Thank you so very much, Primedia History Group, for your generous donation of $9,778 to the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust. These proceeds from your recent Chancellorsville reenactment at Ft. Pickett, Va., [September 22-24] are a wonderful indication of t... |
125d3ad77a615f6c95da58148db0769c | https://articles.historynet.com/americas-daring-frigate-captains.htm | America’s Daring Frigate Captains | America’s Daring Frigate Captains
In the War of 1812, Britain’s powerful Royal Navy met its match in a determined band of U.S. Navy warship commanders.
On June 18, 1812, the United States Congress declared war on Great Britain, initiating what some historians judge the final chapter of the American Revolution. The War ... |
49d9f55af44a7ab47fae71f6997dd280 | https://articles.historynet.com/americas-medal-honor-heroes.htm | America’s Medal of Honor Heroes | America’s Medal of Honor Heroes
From the Civil War to Afghanistan, the United States’ highest valor award has recognized feats of courage and sacrifice.
On October 25, 2007, in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, a patrol from 2d Battalion, 503d Infantry Regiment, 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team, was returning to Comba... |
5adbb7c7d78a043a1b2f8578de78857a | https://articles.historynet.com/an-american-missionary-describes-beastly-atrocities-in-nanking.htm | An American Missionary Describes ‘Beastly’ Atrocities in Nanking | An American Missionary Describes ‘Beastly’ Atrocities in Nanking
After capturing the Chinese capital of Nanking in December 1937, Japanese troops raped and executed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians. The brutal campaign became known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking. The most detailed description... |
f97a69d8ba17ee3391b363d232d0bb5f | https://articles.historynet.com/an-un-civil-war-over-criticism-2.htm | An un-civil war over criticism | An un-civil war over criticism
Abraham Lincoln’s critics were vitriolic, but at least he didn’t have to deal with them in a daily twitter feed.
This past summer, a beleaguered Barack Obama invited a new wave of criticism—if such criticism really surprises him or us anymore—by ill-advisedly comparing himself to Abraham ... |
07382064a833c8f33762c3c82b7705e9 | https://articles.historynet.com/ancient-history-walls-of-constantinople.htm | Ancient History: Walls of Constantinople | Ancient History: Walls of Constantinople
The art of fortification has existed ever since man first came to realize the value of natural obstacles to his common defense, and evolved as he sought to invoke his own methods to fully exploit that advantage. The building of barriers rapidly evolved from the simple mud parape... |
a8cbb1c19a67196ad1b7b6c190c0a4e8 | https://articles.historynet.com/april-2019-readers-letters.htm | April 2019 Readers’ Letters | April 2019 Readers’ Letters
GUNFIGHTS I appreciated your October 2018 issue, with particular attention to “Gunfights Far From the O.K. Corral” [by Ron Soodalter]. You can imagine my delight in seeing the first of those gunfights featured an ancestor, Dallas Stoudenmire. My research on Dallas yields five or six differen... |
f750789df1db57b252f27193499f3e4c | https://articles.historynet.com/arming-revolution-continental-army-get-cannons.htm | Arming the Revolution: Where did the Continental Army get its cannons? | Arming the Revolution: Where did the Continental Army get its cannons?
Cannons in the 18th century were considered the kings of the battlefield. George Washington knew— as did virtually everyone on both sides of the conflict—that without artillery, the American cause would be seriously handicapped. Even before the smok... |
5c3a941f41d55e03c71191b706ca400b | https://articles.historynet.com/arsenal-c-130b-hercules.htm | The C-130B Hercules | The C-130B Hercules
At approximately 9 a.m. on Feb. 23, 1967, soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, parachuted from their C-130A troop transports and seized Katum in southern South Vietnam, just 7 miles from the Cambodian border. They were followed by 10 C-130Bs carrying c... |
49004b02f1379dc1c2e502b7c0591527 | https://articles.historynet.com/artists-father-figure.htm | Artists | Father Figure | Artists | Father Figure
Created some 70 years after the moment it captured, Emanuel Leutze’s painting became the most iconic image of the American Revolution.
THOUGH IT HAS BEEN PARODIED, LAMPOONED, REENACTED, COPIED, AND CRITICIZED endlessly in recent times, for generations of Americans Washington Crossing the Delawar... |
7d1faad471955b2a821fa3c651803f77 | https://articles.historynet.com/artists-threads-history.htm | Artists | Threads of History | Artists | Threads of History
A Portuguese king sought to glorify his military exploits through the art of tapestry.
IN THE 1470s KING AFONSO V OF PORTUGAL (1432–1482) commissioned a series of tapestries from the workshop of Flemish weaver Pasquier Grenier, the preeminent commercial weaver of the late 15th century.
Medi... |
da00da8dfc00e4c8d1ba588fa365baee | https://articles.historynet.com/attack-long-binh.htm | Attack on Long Binh: A Big Battle, As Seen From the Rear | Attack on Long Binh: A Big Battle, As Seen From the Rear
Long Binh didn’t get word of the attack until the day of the planned assault
It was another hot February day in 1969 at the sprawling Long Binh logistics base about 20 miles northeast of Saigon. My driver arrived at the usual time, a little before sundown, on Feb... |
c1dbdfba4f491bbd0187121bd5ac18e6 | https://articles.historynet.com/attack-on-quang-tri-city-during-the-vietnam-war.htm | Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War | Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War
Creeping unseen into Quang Tri, the 20 elite commandos of the Communist sapper platoon struck at 0200 hours on January 31, 1968, hitting critical points throughout the city. The surprise assault was the spearpoint of a larger attack on the northernmost province of South V... |
750d3a6a279c85a2d1cc381162a0d853 | https://articles.historynet.com/attack-quang-tri.htm | Attack On Quang Tri | Attack On Quang Tri
Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take.
Creeping unseen into Quang Tri, the 20 elite commandos of the Communist sapper platoon struck at 0200 hours on January 31, 1968, hitting critical points throughout the city.... |
dafdeb5c0ef911b5cd9669cb3b6395ae | https://articles.historynet.com/audiobook-review-all-about-the-burger.htm | Audiobook Review | How America’s Most Favorite Sandwich Got Its Start | Audiobook Review | How America’s Most Favorite Sandwich Got Its Start
All About the Burger: A History of America’s Favorite Sandwich by Sef Gonzalez
Read by Matthew Boston, with the recording produced by Tantor Audio
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
Focusing as much on customer experience as menu, author Sef Gonzalez serves... |
4e95325194283820d7225879d2f592fc | https://articles.historynet.com/audiobook-review-big-fella-shows-babe-ruths-rise-as-legend.htm | Audiobook Review: ‘Big Fella’ Shows Babe Ruth’s Rise as Legend | Audiobook Review: ‘Big Fella’ Shows Babe Ruth’s Rise as Legend
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy
Read by Fred Sanders, with the recording produced by Harper Audio.
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
From disposable child to baseball’s most valuable player, Babe Ruth experienced a transformation a... |
51a2c08ea792d3cfd2531db6a42f686e | https://articles.historynet.com/audiobook-review-fly-girls-by-keith-o-brien.htm | Audiobook Review| Fly Girls by Keith O’Brien | Audiobook Review| Fly Girls by Keith O’Brien
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien Read by Erin Bennet, with the recording produced by Highbridge Audio
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
Keith O’Brien celebrates a quintet advocating “women’s suffrage of the sky,” explaining... |
11a6d5f0ff699bf632d7d3aecf0723de | https://articles.historynet.com/audiobook-review-how-rodgers-and-hammerstein-revolutionized-the-musical.htm | Audiobook Review| How Rodgers and Hammerstein Revolutionized the Musical | Audiobook Review| How Rodgers and Hammerstein Revolutionized the Musical
Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution
Written by Todd S. Purdum
Read by the author, with the recording produced by Blackstone Audio.
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
Composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein ... |
93ac99810f185fae0b3d91fdd5eb416f | https://articles.historynet.com/audiobook-review-redemption-martin-luther-king-jr-s-last-31-hours-by-joseph-rosenbloom.htm | Audiobook Review | The Promise of the Grand Canyon by John F. Ross | Audiobook Review | The Promise of the Grand Canyon by John F. Ross
The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West by John F. Ross
Read by Stephan Rudnicki, with the recording produced by Penguin Audio
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
John F. Ross has crafted a biog... |
eb5009a01d5327213223274e8a15ef76 | https://articles.historynet.com/audiobook-review-the-last-castle-denise-kiernan.htm | Audiobook Review: The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan | Audiobook Review: The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home by Denise Kiernan
Kiernan reads aloud as well as she writes, imparting to each detail perfect inflection and pacing. Her performance lends conversational intimacy to the B... |
f8222cd324a9c83c1cc91d6a00bb805d | https://articles.historynet.com/audiobook-review-the-moralist-by-patricia-otoole.htm | Audiobook Review – The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made | Audiobook Review – The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
By Patricia O’Toole
Read by Fred Sanders, with the recording produced by Simon and Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio.
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
Patricia O’Toole compellingly explains how a moraliz... |
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Bleeding Ground I thoroughly enjoyed “The Bleeding Ground,” by John H. Monnett, in the December 2015 issue. I have read a couple of books by this author and know he’s in the upper tier of Western Indian wars historians. As he relates in his article, long-lost documents were made available t... |
b347c08050291e607a83949fac2f5887 | https://articles.historynet.com/august-2020-readers-letters.htm | August 2020 Readers’ Letters | August 2020 Readers’ Letters
Cree Credence I read with interest Jon Guttman’s “Hunting Big Bear,” in the February 2020 issue of Wild West. There are a few sentences in his article that refer to the motives of the Crees based on the history created by the Canadians (soldiers, survivors, politicians, etc.). I am the auth... |
3a1e0dfe5a83f3f942ac0171b025d931 | https://articles.historynet.com/aviation-history-book-review-lemay-2.htm | Aviation History Review: LeMay | Aviation History Review: LeMay
LeMay by Barrett Tillman,(Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 2007, $21.95)
One day in the 1980s, former U.S. Air Force radar specialist Sam Korth met retired General Curtis E. LeMay at an airshow and asked him if a popular story about him was true. Had the World War II bomber leader actually s... |
a509de1faad71fc9830781de95f62194 | https://articles.historynet.com/aviators-american-stork.htm | An American Stork | An American Stork
The top gun in France’s squadron of aces in 1918 wasn’t a Frenchman.
Escadrille Spa.3, known as “Les Cigognes” for the stork emblem on the sides of its airplanes, was the most famous squadron in the French air service during World War I. It was credited with the most enemy planes—175—and boasted some ... |
198c167cd0acc701108011f851973373 | https://articles.historynet.com/back-ia-drang.htm | Back to Ia Drang | Back to Ia Drang
At Ia Drang in 1965, they fought each other with an intimate, bloody ferocity that left hundreds dead and scores maimed, and yet decades later, old enemies could embrace in friendship.
At our first meeting in 1982 to map out the research that would consume a decade and result in the publication of We W... |
f214dea62ef5682445e7539cf116a0f6 | https://articles.historynet.com/backhand-blow-kharkov-1943.htm | Backhand Blow: Kharkov 1943 | Backhand Blow: Kharkov 1943
Last time out, we left the Eastern Front in a state of high suspense. Soviet armies were ranging wide and deep, hurtling toward the Dnepr crossings. They were maneuvering in open space, a rare thing in modern war. Wherever you happened to fix your eye on this sprawling operational map, the S... |
f984cfad8982e609ccf9be62f7be10c6 | https://articles.historynet.com/backwoodsmen-and-militia-repeatedly-beat-off-americans-in-1812-14.htm | Online Exclusive: Canadian Militia, Regulars, and First Nation Soldiers Beat Off American Invaders Repeatedly in 1812-14 | Online Exclusive: Canadian Militia, Regulars, and First Nation Soldiers Beat Off American Invaders Repeatedly in 1812-14
Blunders by U.S. generals and courageous stands handed the country two iconic victories Between July 1812 and 1813, the United States, at war with Great Britain, tried and failed seven times to invad... |
f6d05278716d082c2531d577ae9e77d4 | https://articles.historynet.com/bat-out-of-hell.htm | Messerschmitt Me-163: Bat Out of Hell | Messerschmitt Me-163: Bat Out of Hell
The rocket-powered Me-163 Komet interceptor outperformed every other World War II combat aircraft…if its pilots lived to fight.
In late July 1944, P-51 Mustang pilots who thought they flew the best fighter aircraft over Germany received a rude surprise.
Colonel Avelin P. Tacon Jr. ... |
9ce89cb78b546bcb81b4ea7278e48997 | https://articles.historynet.com/battle-films-the-imitation-game.htm | ‘The Imitation Game’ Sacrifices Truth for Emotion | ‘The Imitation Game’ Sacrifices Truth for Emotion
The Academy Award-winning film downplays key historic details in the breaking of Germany’s Enigma code, yet still packs a powerful punch.
DURING WORLD WAR II, the Germans mounted a war effort extending over an expanse so vast that it could not be coordinated except via ... |
9e9d0506e76e2f650e092dee5509b760 | https://articles.historynet.com/battle-of-big-bethel.htm | First Blood at Big Bethel | First Blood at Big Bethel
A skirmish near the tip of Virginia’s Peninsula served as a harbinger of the four-year bloodbath to come
As Civil War battles go, the engagement at Big Bethel on June 10, 1861, didn’t amount to much. Had it occurred later in the conflict, it would have hardly merited any mention in the newspap... |
d13bd74811ae916e107c619f0c395864 | https://articles.historynet.com/battle-of-brandywine.htm | Battle of Brandywine | Battle of Brandywine
Sunrise was masked by thick fog that hung shroudlike over the city of Philadelphia on September 11, 1777. Shortly before 8 o’clock that morning, the people who had gathered in tight knots in the streets, squares and around public buildings heard distant thunder. It lasted until nearly noon, then ce... |
73a47122b29621e81596ce9a80bd3f92 | https://articles.historynet.com/battle-of-palmetto-ranch-american-civil-wars-final-battle.htm | Battle of Palmetto Ranch: American Civil War’s Final Battle | Battle of Palmetto Ranch: American Civil War’s Final Battle
By May 11, 1865, nearly everyone in the United States and in the moribund Confederacy considered the Civil War over. Both of the South’s principal armies had capitulated. Lieutenant General Richard Taylor had surrendered most of the remaining Confederate force... |
4182e5b54a42fbeadf1fcf4f64dc39cf | https://articles.historynet.com/battle-of-wilsons-creek.htm | Battle of Wilson’s Creek | Battle of Wilson’s Creek
Washington, D.C., buzzed with war fever. Each day eager young would-be soldiers stepped off trains in the U.S. capital, around which a massive Federal army was being organized and trained. Technically, war on the ground had already begun: On June 10, 1861, a 2,500-man Federal force had clashed ... |
0c696d54c87bb9df4099e45c28ca7df2 | https://articles.historynet.com/becoming-ottoman.htm | How the Ottomans Collapsed the Byzantine Empire | How the Ottomans Collapsed the Byzantine Empire
The Ottoman empire, among the greatest the world has seen, was founded by the eponymous Osman, a minor Turkish chieftain from northwestern Anatolia. His main rival was the declining and enfeebled Byzantine empire, which had once controlled all of Anatolia, though by the l... |
c11e56a01c14f85ea7d24a6ca11207bc | https://articles.historynet.com/behind-lines-durham-boat.htm | Behind the Lines: The Durham Boat | Behind the Lines: The Durham Boat
Originally built to carry heavy cargo on colonial waterways, Durham boats became General George Washington’s landing craft of choice in late 1776.
For the most renowned river crossing in American history— General George Washington’s surprise attack across the Delaware River on the Hess... |
06b7488ba3a9e7518c05e609309b7b14 | https://articles.historynet.com/big-ears-three-and-the-battle-of-bien-hoa.htm | ‘Big Ears Three’ and the Battle of Bien Hoa | ‘Big Ears Three’ and the Battle of Bien Hoa
A 19-year-old sentry assigned to a listening post at a U.S. air base gets caught in the crossfire during a Viet Cong attack.
On January 29, 1968, the night sky above the sprawling Bien Hoa Air Base, where I was on sentry patrol, appeared to be on fire. Large numbers of flares... |
88a9b26b6d0ffe945d0e512c1c87a527 | https://articles.historynet.com/big-win-saratoga.htm | Big Win at Saratoga | Big Win at Saratoga
Twice battled to a standstill by fiery Benedict Arnold, Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne lost his army—and Britain’s best shot at ending our Revolution.
King George III was so excited by the news that he broke into the queen’s bedchamber, where she sat dressed only in a chemise. Highly irregular, perhaps, but... |
2c69203980805a4f6953ae5442741cd0 | https://articles.historynet.com/blasted-away-ship-stern-discovered-in-aleutians.htm | Blasted-Away Ship Stern Discovered in Aleutians | Blasted-Away Ship Stern Discovered in Aleutians
The ship was saved. But its 75-foot stern sank in the pitch-black, fog-shrouded waters off the Aleutians, lost along with 70 men.
Nearly 75 years later, scientists from the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Dela... |
d3aa08fd97f5bc4d64af746d044ce5bb | https://articles.historynet.com/bluegrass-state-battleground.htm | Bluegrass State Battleground | Bluegrass State Battleground
Events pressed hard upon Confederate Major General Leonidas Polk in the late summer of 1861. As commander of defenses on the lower Mississippi River from the Tennessee-Kentucky border to Louisiana, Polk in confronted momentous decisions. His reaction to events produced a military and politi... |
b1ac70279ab355b09589013cf9586cdc | https://articles.historynet.com/blueprint-for-blitzkrieg.htm | Blueprint for Blitzkrieg | Blueprint for Blitzkrieg
For Colonel Heinz Guderian and other German officers whose careers spanned the tumultuous period between the two world wars, the death of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg on August 2, 1934, marked the end of an era. A war hero who overcame defeat by the Allies in 1918 to win election as presid... |
bf5b202ea73cfb4683e0eed3d4f49b6b | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-a-place-called-appomattox-by-william-marvel-acw.htm | Book Review: A Place Called Appomattox (By William Marvel): ACW | Book Review: A Place Called Appomattox (By William Marvel): ACW
Two volumes offer new interpretations and shatter some myths about the end of the Civil War. By A. Wilson Green William Marvel knows how to tell a good story. He is also a master at debunking myths and reinterpreting historical orthodoxy. Readers familiar ... |
2ad917fe2e83fcb8b52154b48cfdbcfc | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-a-southern-boy-in-blue-the-memoir-of-marcus-woodcock-9th-kentuckyinfantry-usa-kenneth-w-noe-acw.htm | Book Review: A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th KentuckyInfantry (USA) ( Kenneth W. Noe) : ACW | Book Review: A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th KentuckyInfantry (USA) ( Kenneth W. Noe) : ACW
A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (USA), edited by Kenneth W. Noe, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tenn., $32.95.
Most students of the Civil War are... |
5a67e7c13d12edb11edced3e8f32fac7 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-americas-best-female-sharpshooter.htm | Book Review: America’s Best Female Sharpshooter | Book Review: America’s Best Female Sharpshooter
America’s Best Female Sharpshooter: The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith, by Julia Bricklin, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2017, $24.95
What? You were expecting Annie Oakley? Certainly Oakley is the most famous female sharpshooter to ever break thrown glass ... |
0f85b0a8cff282823718aaa134fd6325 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-an-uncommon-soldier-the-civil-war-letters-of-sarah-rosetta-wakeman-153rd-regiment-new-york-volunteers-18621864-edited-by-lauren-cook-burgess-acw.htm | Book Review: An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman 153rd Regiment, New York Volunteers, 18621864 (edited by Lauren Cook Burgess) : ACW | Book Review: An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman 153rd Regiment, New York Volunteers, 18621864 (edited by Lauren Cook Burgess) : ACW
An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman 153rd Regiment, New York Volunteers, 18621864, edited by Lauren Cook Burgess, Oxford ... |
1c6226f261214d4443146473f25a9134 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-arado-history-of-an-aircraft-company-dr-jorg-armin-kranzhoff-ah.htm | Book Review: Arado: History of an Aircraft Company (Dr. Jorg Armin Kranzhoff) : AH | Book Review: Arado: History of an Aircraft Company (Dr. Jorg Armin Kranzhoff) : AH
The Arado aircraft company arose quietly under restrictions, but it soon became a solid presence in Germany. By Walter Boyne Dr. Jorg Armin Kranzhoff’s excellent new book Arado: History of an Aircraft Company (Schiffer Military History, ... |
9386c01efae5a918dd4a8ff7fc7a2357 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-ben-thompson.htm | Book Review: Ben Thompson | Book Review: Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson: Portrait of a Gunfighter, by Thomas C. Bicknell and Chuck Parsons, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2018, $34.95
Years before meeting his ultimate fate, Ben Thompson saw it coming: “Whether by nature or not, I am from habit a gambler, willing to take the delights of the e... |
5d45187cae2dfe240eecb8986281bd31 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-bentonville-the-final-battle-of-sherman-and-johnston-nathaniel-c-hughes-jr-acw.htm | Book Review: Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston (Nathaniel C. Hughes, Jr.) : ACW | Book Review: Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston (Nathaniel C. Hughes, Jr.) : ACW
Near the war’s end, Confederate General Johnston struck one last, telling blow at Sherman’s Union juggernaut.
By B. Keith Toney
By March 1865, both North and South realized that the long, bloody Civil War that had raged ... |
8dc5639bcf6e11cacebd1bdcc551ba3b | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-bonanza-king.htm | Book Review: The Bonanza King | Book Review: The Bonanza King
The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West, by Gregory Crouch, Scribner, New York, 2018, $30 While John William Mackay’s rags-to-riches story is largely forgotten, it once gripped the nation, and with good reason. Born in Dublin in 1831, he... |
08de87866b18e79582e8b54ceee3fe22 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-brasseys-history-of-uniforms-american-civil-war-robin-smith-and-ron-field-acw.htm | Book Review: Brassey’s History of Uniforms: American Civil War ( Robin Smith and Ron Field) : ACW | Book Review: Brassey’s History of Uniforms: American Civil War ( Robin Smith and Ron Field) : ACW
Brassey’s History of Uniforms: American Civil War, Union Army, by Robin Smith, and Brassey’s Historyof Uniforms: American Civil War, Confederate Army, by Ron Field, Brassey’s Inc., McLean, Va., $31.95 each.
When President ... |
8e370f65f682179cde5dc7ed26866553 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-chisholm-trail.htm | Book Review: The Chisholm Trail | Book Review: The Chisholm Trail
The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble, by James E. Sherow, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2018, $29.95
As historian James P. Ronda notes in the foreword, period maps of Western cattle trails that prominently feature the Chisholm Trail can be deceptive, as they seem to re... |
e38673d429e666f9528b29a5fb6a83d1 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-confederate-admiral-the-life-and-wars-of-franklin-buchanan-by-craig-symonds-acw.htm | Book Review: Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan (By Craig Symonds): ACW | Book Review: Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan (By Craig Symonds): ACW
Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan sometimes fought his friends as fiercely as he fought his enemies.
By Robert M. Browning, Jr.
On April 22, 1861, Captain Franklin Buchanan, one of the most senior officers in the United... |
89363353e5ae620a406c35fba9c5a896 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-crucible-of-war-the-seven-years-war-and-the-fate-of-empire-in-british-north-america-1754-1766-by-fred-anderson-mhq.htm | Book Review: Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 | Book Review: Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Fred Anderson has written as good a history of the Seven Years’ War in North America, commonly called the French and Indian War, as one can find. At some 835 pages excluding the index, it is not, however, for t... |
93d95ab951b34297be12dabb3bd92a8e | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-dark-days-of-the-rebellion-benjamin-f-booth-and-steve-myer-acw.htm | Book Review: Dark Days of the Rebellion (Benjamin F. Booth and Steve Myer) : ACW | Book Review: Dark Days of the Rebellion (Benjamin F. Booth and Steve Myer) : ACW
Dark Days of the Rebellion, by Benjamin F. Booth and Steve Myer, Myer Publishing, Garrison, Iowa, 1995, $24.95. From the time the Civil War ended until around the 1960s, most material written on the war had a definite slant, either pro-Nor... |
0de80f4dab042979872ed20d31c3e941 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-dodge-city.htm | Book Review: Dodge City | Book Review: Dodge City
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and the Wickedest Town in the American West, by Tom Clavin, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2017, $29.99 In its Wild West heyday Dodge City, Kansas, was a rollicking place that drew a host of historical figures, notably Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Luke Short ... |
cbbcff1e24166426df502dfa27dc241e | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-eanger-irving-couse.htm | Book Review: Eanger Irving Couse | Book Review: Eanger Irving Couse
Eanger Irving Couse: The Life and Times of an American Artist, 1866–1936, by Virginia Couse Leavitt, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2019, $59.95
Author Virginia Couse Leavitt grew up surrounded by her grandfather’s paintings, has studied his work for more than 30 years, is a foun... |
235ff6ba3eaf2ff9e43f751aa6142563 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-encyclopedia-of-north-american-indians-frederick-e-hoxie-ah.htm | Book Review: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (Frederick E. Hoxie) : AH | Book Review: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (Frederick E. Hoxie) : AH
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie (Houghton Mifflin Company, 712 pages, $45.00)
This single-volume work, containing the contributions of 260 contemporary authorities, details the history of the Native-Americ... |
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