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https://www.historynet.com/churchill-imagines-how-the-south-won-the-civil-war.htm
How the South Won the Civil War
How the South Won the Civil War The Confederates capture Washington? That's just one of the clever bits of fiction that Churchill conjured up in his 1931 essay (Photo Illustration by Vertis Communications; White House: Library of Congress; Confederate Flag: Thinkstock). MHQ Home Page Many who have read and relied on Wi...
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https://www.historynet.com/cias-costly-mistake.htm
The CIA’s Costly Mistake
The CIA’s Costly Mistake In November 1967, Joe Hovey tried to warn the Johnson administration about the Tet Offensive—but his CIA superiors said he was crying wolf. Unlike great statesmen, military leaders, diplomats or openly declared swashbuckling intelligence operatives, reallife intelligence analysts work quietly i...
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https://www.historynet.com/civil-war-circuses.htm
Civil War Circuses Beloved by Blue and Gray Audiences
Civil War Circuses Beloved by Blue and Gray Audiences Soldiers and civilians flocked to see the freakish and fantastic On the eve of the Civil War, the circus—or “menagerie,” as some shows featuring human oddities were called—was an immensely popular cultural phenomenon across the United States. The 19th-century equiva...
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https://www.historynet.com/civil-war-firepower-denied.htm
Civil War Firepower Denied!
Civil War Firepower Denied! The Union Army’s chief of ordnance sabotaged the introduction of repeating weapons. The Civil War has been called the first “modern war” and is credited with the introduction of revolutionary military technologies to include repeating weapons and proto-machine guns such as the Gatling gun. I...
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https://www.historynet.com/civil-war-memory.htm
Civil War Memory
Civil War Memory When will all of us finally admit what caused the war? In the absence of national leadership, myths and untruths run rampant Reunion of G.A.R. and U.C.V. at Gettysburg in 1913. Library of Congress.Whose war is it anyway? If you go by the title of this magazine, the Civil War belongs to all Americans. T...
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https://www.historynet.com/civil-war-the-untold-story-interview-with-filmmaker-chris-wheeler.htm
‘Civil War: The Untold Story’ – Interview with filmmaker Chris Wheeler
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https://www.historynet.com/civil-war-times-reviews-lincolns-antagonists.htm
Civil War Times Reviews: Lincoln’s Antagonists
Civil War Times Reviews: Lincoln’s Antagonists The premise of Fergus Bordewich’s engrossing new book is apparent from his subtitle—How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America. The author sets out to counter the popular supposition that “Abraham Lincoln alone led the ...
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https://www.historynet.com/clara-maass-the-nurse-who-gave-her-life-in-the-name-of-science.htm
Clara Maass, the Nurse Who Gave Her Life in the Name of Science
Clara Maass, the Nurse Who Gave Her Life in the Name of Science “Hardly a man has yet died from it,” wrote Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in his now infamous 1898 Round-Robin Letter. “But the whole command is so weakened and shattered as to be ripe for dying like rotten sheep, when a real yellow-fever epidemic instead of a...
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https://www.historynet.com/classic-dispatches-highway-hell.htm
Classic Dispatches | Highway to Hell
Classic Dispatches | Highway to Hell Michael Kelly went to war, as a journalist, on his own terms. In 1990, following stints as a reporter for the Cincinnati Post and the Baltimore Sun, he decided to do an end run around the Pentagon’s tight restrictions on the news media for Operation Desert Storm and cover the confli...
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https://www.historynet.com/cloaked-vengeance-george-pickett-and-the-hanging-of-union-prisoners.htm
Cloaked Vengeance: George Pickett and the Hanging of Union Prisoners
Cloaked Vengeance: George Pickett and the Hanging of Union Prisoners What was a bitter George Pickett thinking when he ordered the hanging of Union prisoners at Kinston, N.C., in 1864? On a raw mid-February day in 1864, two brigades of Confederate soldiers stood at attention around a makeshift gallows. They had been fo...
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https://www.historynet.com/close-call-chosin.htm
Close Call at Chosin
Close Call at Chosin How the foresight and tactical brilliance of Marine Maj. Gen. O.P. Smith saved his division from annihilation in North Korea. One of the little-known aspects of the Chosin Reservoir campaign was that Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Smith, the commander of the Marines there, was far more of a “George Marshall m...
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Close Call at Crooked Billet
Close Call at Crooked Billet Ordered to cut off supplies to British troops occupying Philadelphia, a young Patriot officer played a deadly game of cat and mouse. Just before midnight on April 30, 1778, Brig. Gen. John Lacey Jr. walked the perimeter of his unit’s encampment north of the crossroads village of Crooked Bil...
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https://www.historynet.com/coffee-kings-old-west-folger-first-arbuckle.htm
Coffee Kings of the Old West: Folger Was First, Then Arbuckle
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https://www.historynet.com/cold-blue-brings-death-defying-world-of-a-world-war-ii-b-17-bomber-crew-to-life.htm
‘Cold Blue’ brings death-defying world of a World War II B-17 bomber crew to life
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https://www.historynet.com/collegiate-conundrum.htm
Collegiate Conundrum
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Colorado’s Fort Garland Museum Recalls Kit Carson and Other Legends
Colorado’s Fort Garland Museum Recalls Kit Carson and Other Legends The adobe post protected settlers and had a role in the Civil War. The Fort Garland Museum centers on the lively frontier history of the surrounding San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. Young mountain man Christopher “Kit” Carson became acquainted wit...
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Combat Veteran BUFF: Restoring a Vietnam War Bomber
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https://www.historynet.com/command-confederate-guerrilla-attack-1863.htm
You Command: Confederate Guerrilla Attack, 1863
You Command: Confederate Guerrilla Attack, 1863 As commander of a force of irregular cavalrymen, YOU lead your men against Union troops at Fort Blair. In October 1863, the American Civil War continued to rage fiercely on bloody battlefields across the country, from the Atlantic coast to far beyond the Mississippi River...
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https://www.historynet.com/condoms-as-a-weapon-and-other-wild-devices-of-the-oss.htm
Condoms as a Weapon and Other Wild Devices of the OSS
Condoms as a Weapon and Other Wild Devices of the OSS The Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA, certainly put its American ingenuity to good use… —The “Caccolube” was a simple, yet effective method that OSS agents employed to disable enemy vehicles. Filling a condom (multi-use, who knew?) with an “abrasi...
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https://www.historynet.com/confederate-ordnance-chief-did-a-bang-up-job-supplying-the-south.htm
Confederate Ordnance Chief Did a Bang-Up Job Supplying the South
Confederate Ordnance Chief Did a Bang-Up Job Supplying the South Late in the war, General Josiah Gorgas advocated arming slaves to fight Confederate armies never lost a battle because they lacked sufficient arms or ammunition. This achievement came despite formidable challenges and depended, to a significant extent, on...
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https://www.historynet.com/confederate-priest-refused-to-get-on-his-knees-to-sheridan.htm
Confederate Priest Refused to Get on His Knees to Sheridan
Confederate Priest Refused to Get on His Knees to Sheridan A feisty Southern chaplain takes on ‘Little Phil, a fellow Catholic, to escape Yankee captivity As the Union siege of Petersburg, Va., dragged on through the summer and fall of 1864, Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early led his Army of the Valley on a daring rai...
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https://www.historynet.com/conscription-age-northern-italy.htm
What was the Conscription Age for Northern Italy?
What was the Conscription Age for Northern Italy? Hello, I am writing a book about my mother’s life during WWII in northern Italy. I read that in 1941, Italy was on the brink of military disaster and Mussolini needed more able-bodied men to equip his army. I read he changed the conscription age up to 51-year-old men. I...
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https://www.historynet.com/controversial-abraham-lincoln-statue-removed-in-boston.htm
Controversial Abraham Lincoln Statue Removed in Boston
Controversial Abraham Lincoln Statue Removed in Boston As 2020 winds down in its final week, this past Tuesday the controversial statue of President Abraham Lincoln standing over a kneeling Black man was removed in Park Square in Boston, Massachusetts 141 years after it was erected. The statue depicts a fully clothed a...
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A Controversial Question: Were Fears of China Justified?
A Controversial Question: Were Fears of China Justified? A series examining contentious issues of the Vietnam War After an international agreement in 1954 split Vietnam in two, communist China became an important source of military aid for Ho Chi Minh’s communist government in North Vietnam as a counterweight to the We...
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Conversation with former Secretary of the Army: Clifford L. Alexander Jr.
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https://www.historynet.com/conversation-piece-meade-tower.htm
Conversation Piece: Faulty Tower
Conversation Piece: Faulty Tower (Melissa A. Winn) In one of those ironic twists of history, a monument erected to honor Confederate troops who fought at the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg somehow now bears the name of a Union general—the victor of the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, no less! Known today as “Mead...
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https://www.historynet.com/cornfield-maelstrom.htm
Antietam’s Cornfield Maelstrom
Antietam’s Cornfield Maelstrom September 1, 1862, dawned bright and clear on David and Margaret Miller’s farm north of quiet Sharpsburg, Md. Stepping from their two-story whitewashed home, David—known as D.R.—could see his barn and haystacks west across the Hagerstown Pike, running north from town and bisecting his pro...
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https://www.historynet.com/cornwallis-yorktown-india-redemption.htm
Cornwallis: From Yorktown to India — and Redemption
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https://www.historynet.com/corregidor-the-last-battle-in-the-fall-of-the-philippines.htm
Corregidor: The last battle in the fall of the Philippines
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https://www.historynet.com/crockett-and-the-creek-war-we-now-shot-them-like-dogs.htm
Crockett and the Creek War: ‘We Now Shot Them Like Dogs’
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https://www.historynet.com/crossroads-no-remorse.htm
From the Crossroads: No Remorse
From the Crossroads: No Remorse An ‘earnest’ rebel from Alabama helped save Antietam and Gettysburg for future generations The soldiers of Maj. Gen. John B. Hood’s Division waited in the West Woods on September 17, 1862. Union shrapnel, shell, and solid shot rained down upon the woods, at times sending tree limbs crash...
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https://www.historynet.com/crossroads-white-lies.htm
From the Crossroads: White Lies
From the Crossroads: White Lies Already a Confederate hero, John B. Gordon still couldn’t resist tweaking the record a little “My rifles flamed and roared in the Federals’ faces like a blinding blaze of lightning accompanied by the quick and deadly thunderbolt. The effect was appalling. The entire front line, with few ...
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https://www.historynet.com/crushed-horns-hattin.htm
Crushed on the Horns of Hattin
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Curtin Called: The Elite Forces of the Pennsylvania Reserves
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Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: One of WW II’s Most Famous Fighters
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CWT Book Review: The Abolitionist Imagination
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CWT Book Review: Emancipating Lincoln
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CWT Review: Bad Blood
CWT Review: Bad Blood Bad Blood: The Border War That Triggered the Civil War a co-production of Wide Awake Films and KCPT Kansas City Public Television, 2007, 90 minutes, $19.95. Much like Ken Burns’ land- mark PBS documentary The Civil War, Bad Blood uses wonderful music, loads of archival photographs and prints, hist...
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https://www.historynet.com/d-day-in-16-objects.htm
D-Day in 16 Objects
D-Day in 16 Objects On the 75th anniversary of Operation Neptune, a portfolio of selected armaments and artifacts. At 06:30 hours on June 6, 1944—D-Day—Allied infantry and armored divisions began landing in monumental numbers along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast. Their mission: to liberate German-occupied Fran...
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D-Day: Interview with Two U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion Members Who Describe the Attack at Pointe-du-Hoc
D-Day: Interview with Two U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion Members Who Describe the Attack at Pointe-du-Hoc History is rife with misconceptions, and World War II is no exception. As a result of an error in Cornelius Ryan’s book The Longest Day, more than 76 years after its famous attack up a sheer 100-foot cliff, the heroic 2...
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https://www.historynet.com/dark-days-in-paris-the-city-of-light.htm
Dark Days in Paris, the City of Light
Dark Days in Paris, the City of Light Notre Dame Cathedral Adolf Hitler visited Paris only once. He landed at 5:30 a.m. on June 23, 1940. By 9 a.m. he had quick-marched his party by the Champs- Élysées, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Les Invalides, and the Panthéon. The Catacombs, snaking for nearly 190 miles beneath h...
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Death by Marshmallows? For One RAF Crew This Sugary Snack Almost Proved Lethal
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https://www.historynet.com/death-of-the-wehrmacht.htm
Death of the Wehrmacht
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Death Stalks the Capital
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https://www.historynet.com/december-2020-readers-letters.htm
December 2020 Readers’ Letters
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The Deputy U.S. Marshal Had True Grit In the Novel, Two Films and Real Life
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‘Desert One’ Documentary Chronicles Challenges, Lessons of Operation Eagle Claw
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Desperate Stand: What The Brickyard Fight Meant At Gettysburg
Desperate Stand: What The Brickyard Fight Meant At Gettysburg For more than a century, the fighting that occurred in and around John Kuhn’s brickyard was most often a mere footnote in the history of the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Two highly regarded 20th-century histories offer telling examples. General Edward J. ...
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Diana Kouris: She Knows Brown’s Park
Diana Kouris: She Knows Brown’s Park An old adage counsels, “Write what you know.” Well, Diana Kouris certainly knows the history of Brown’s Park, Colorado, and she relates an intimate story of the valley in Nighthawk Rising: A Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown’s Park. Bassett and Kouris’ g...
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Diary of a Morgan Raider
Diary of a Morgan Raider Sometimes a war story can be reduced to one seemingly endless fight. Probably no aspect of Confederate cavalry raider John Hunt Morgan’s operations are more obscure than those from early 1863. Without a doubt, those operations represent some of Morgan’s most notable military achievements. John ...
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Did Muslims explore America? Was there a Swedish colony?
Did Muslims explore America? Was there a Swedish colony? I’ve heard that shortly after America was discovered by Columbus followers of Islam did try to send their own explorers over to the new lands of America. What happened to them? One more question: did Sweden have its own colonies in America where Northern Jersey i...
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Dinosaur Wars in the American West
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Divers Find Rare Nazi Enigma Machine in the Baltic Sea
Divers Find Rare Nazi Enigma Machine in the Baltic Sea A group of divers from the World Wildlife Fund found more than they bargained for last month during a routine removal of abandoned fishing nets near Denmark’s Gelting Bay. After believing they had found an old typewriter, the group soon realized that they had, in f...
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DoD Draws Distinction Between Neo-Nazi Membership and ‘Active Participation’
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Famed doctor Tom Dooley secretly helped CIA
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Double Killing in Fort Worth
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