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0c9c331e519c05baba4682f84d3cd405 | 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).
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Many who have read and relied on Wi... |
df30a5aee291fbce2ccf8a0b3e0badeb | 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... |
b503e9559a53fcbad60583c7fc837777 | 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... |
39abbd776414d9c0f7a1001e0290bf99 | 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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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... |
5a3c7e609be8a85e93b73f70f718eaef | 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 | ‘Civil War: The Untold Story’ – Interview with filmmaker Chris Wheeler
'Civil War: The Untold Story' examines the war in the Western Theater. Photo by Justin Koehler
Civil War: The Untold Story is a five-hour documentary from Great Divide Pictures, which has produced award-winning historical documentaries such as How t... |
a2b7d656c1582bc16e12801b4a769a68 | 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 ... |
9445ddfc8a9d94c01daa2cc35be337bc | 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... |
b6d63ab1b356353af0d3cb01f6366435 | 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... |
ef8ed4223f3b4cccab596869cc3ff4cc | 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... |
1394c044be8bdcb5455e7105e2446a44 | 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... |
e8410eb92b63c5b3bf2ef5c67e91d575 | https://www.historynet.com/close-call-crooked-billet.htm | 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... |
1e0a2ccc9ccd167bee1cc96f481ab011 | https://www.historynet.com/coffee-kings-old-west-folger-first-arbuckle.htm | Coffee Kings of the Old West: Folger Was First, Then Arbuckle | Coffee Kings of the Old West: Folger Was First, Then Arbuckle
Emigrants wanted ‘grounds’ on their new grounds.
In the mid-1800s, as westbound emigrants left behind the Eastern cities where they could buy pre-ground coffee, they brought coffee beans with them, despite the added weight to their wagons. But those green be... |
d6caf780b97fb4698f25ad7d606f2b23 | 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 | ‘Cold Blue’ brings death-defying world of a World War II B-17 bomber crew to life
Cinematic masterpieces “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946), “Roman Holiday” (1953) and “Ben-Hur” (1959) may have cemented William Wyler’s legacy as one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers, but it was a filming experience during 194... |
f6b5dfc13660b778b50b33dc0421aa7a | https://www.historynet.com/collegiate-conundrum.htm | Collegiate Conundrum | Collegiate Conundrum
For its faults, the Electoral College has endured because it has fulfilled its main purpose—preventing stolen elections
2020 is the 59th American presidential election year. Since the first, in 1789, every candidate has undertaken to win a majority in the Electoral College. This small body—membersh... |
6066b82e295e1a14b7129b126d45fc55 | https://www.historynet.com/colorados-fort-garland-museum-recalls-kit-carson-legends.htm | 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... |
8a948c8c14380b8b018e067b3d5dc613 | https://www.historynet.com/combat-veteran-buff-restoring-a-vietnam-war-bomber.htm | Combat Veteran BUFF: Restoring a Vietnam War Bomber | Combat Veteran BUFF: Restoring a Vietnam War Bomber
Some of the volunteers working to restore a historic B-52D Stratofortress at the Yankee Air Museum serviced the very same aircraft during the Vietnam War.
Among the first things visitors to the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Mich., notice is a Boeing B-52D Stratofo... |
529344956b9aebc6a69d135cdabac266 | 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... |
33304549969942c8458aee213b194e14 | 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... |
66a61a485049459c3fb3a48eee6e8d11 | 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... |
14c86f26bdf625343789c77e8a274d91 | 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... |
5121b8df895697cfaac0384e625c1b15 | 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... |
ba736562520736dbf796d8e118e32ead | 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... |
0a58e45cde55fab24f24057f5a185d58 | https://www.historynet.com/controversial-china.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Historynet+%28HistoryNet+%7C+From+the+World%27s+Largest+History+Magazine+Publisher%29 | 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... |
52f4c0ca6855c842dafd7c18ee86a9bd | https://www.historynet.com/conversation-former-secretary-army-clifford-l-alexander-jr.htm | Conversation with former Secretary of the Army: Clifford L. Alexander Jr. | Conversation with former Secretary of the Army: Clifford L. Alexander Jr.
A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Clifford Alexander Jr. enlisted in the New York National Guard in 1958. Moving to Washington, D.C., in 1963, he served as an adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson and as chairman of the U.S. ... |
0bd75131f5256eb6fb968c2e62850bca | 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... |
97b94f713059b6f8719a90ec384663cb | 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... |
2e87eefb18bded169e7466cc3a17009b | https://www.historynet.com/cornwallis-yorktown-india-redemption.htm | Cornwallis: From Yorktown to India — and Redemption | Cornwallis: From Yorktown to India — and Redemption
In America, General Cornwallis lost the Yorktown battle. In India, he won acclaim as a military and political leader.
IN JANUARY 1782, General Charles, 2nd Earl Cornwallis returned to England as a prisoner of war on parole. George Washington and his French allies had ... |
0cbed37c6c00b553fc7030175a54259d | 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 | Corregidor: The last battle in the fall of the Philippines
Author Bill Sloan’s article for World War II magazine was adapted from his book Undefeated: America’s Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor, which received the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award.
Beginning on the morning of April 10, 1942... |
b4805a51c6864081c5570d4af23f97c4 | 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’ | Crockett and the Creek War: ‘We Now Shot Them Like Dogs’
On Aug. 30, 1813, Red Eagle’s Red Stick Creeks successfully stormed the Fort Mims militia post, but then tortured and killed soldiers and civilians alike. (Sarin Images/Granger)
All through the sweltering night of Aug. 30, 1813, beneath a dim crescent moon, Red E... |
ccf4696b8d8f1ea6e025aa4d674e09fd | 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... |
4a208ef85877fff1ea2ac197830fc858 | 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 ... |
1be14970a7e5f887f46d4eddc3ed5ea3 | https://www.historynet.com/crushed-horns-hattin.htm | Crushed on the Horns of Hattin | Crushed on the Horns of Hattin
In 1187 Saladin’s Muslim armies drove the Latin Crusaders from the Middle East.
On July 4, 1187, the Crusader army in the Latin East, led by Guy of Lusignan, king of Jerusalem, ceased to exist. Saladin’s Muslim armies slaughtered them in the brutal Battle of Hattin, fought near the presen... |
565301fe86d3c26ef7e98e9217c1435d | https://www.historynet.com/curtin-called-the-elite-forces-of-the-pennsylvania-reserves.htm | Curtin Called: The Elite Forces of the Pennsylvania Reserves | Curtin Called: The Elite Forces of the Pennsylvania Reserves
During four years of carnage on hundreds of Civil War battlefields, a handful of units earned reputations as elite, battle-hardened forces. Soldiers in these units prided themselves on their regiment, brigade, or division’s reputation and laurels, often earne... |
550383001721ea3193615fa031770c12 | https://www.historynet.com/curtiss-p-40-warhawk-one-of-ww-iis-most-famous-fighters.htm | Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: One of WW II’s Most Famous Fighters | Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: One of WW II’s Most Famous Fighters
If the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was not the best fighter in the arsenal of the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) when the United States entered the conflict, it was the most numerous type available. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning could outperform the P-40, especially at high... |
c5c57ee60eae24cf6bc188bb6b682ce3 | https://www.historynet.com/cwt-book-review-abolitionist-imagination.htm | CWT Book Review: The Abolitionist Imagination | CWT Book Review: The Abolitionist Imagination
The Abolitionist Imagination
Albert Delbanco; Harvard University Press
Abolitionism has been a hot- button issue since the word first entered our cultural lexicon in relation to ending slavery in 19th-century America. Albert Delbanco proposes to interpret the concept in a b... |
0dc0f8ab00248b8e055a76e44072fbc7 | https://www.historynet.com/cwt-book-review-emancipating-lincoln.htm | CWT Book Review: Emancipating Lincoln | CWT Book Review: Emancipating Lincoln
Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory
Harold Holzer; Harvard University Press
There is probably no important document in our nation’s history more little known—even to Civil War students—than the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet much of the proclamation’... |
7176852c43a8c2b5b8a77c1ebc531bdd | https://www.historynet.com/cwt-review-bad-blood.htm | 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... |
760c973dc169abd2290d8853c0a28317 | 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... |
3353693d45c1a29b45a064b8ed962235 | https://www.historynet.com/d-day-interview-with-two-us-2nd-ranger-battalion-members-who-describe-the-attack-at-pointe-du-hoc.htm | 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... |
4c672fa6f969df5b1aec3cce680642ab | 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... |
ab2ed739b4fdd1e580d7c8d2d348762e | https://www.historynet.com/death-by-marshmallows-for-one-raf-crew-this-sugary-snack-almost-proved-lethal.htm | Death by Marshmallows? For One RAF Crew This Sugary Snack Almost Proved Lethal | Death by Marshmallows? For One RAF Crew This Sugary Snack Almost Proved Lethal
Marshmallow. For most Americans the word conjures up the image of childhoods spent on the beach or around a campfire. Nestled between graham crackers and a slab of Hershey’s chocolate, the greatest danger a marshmallow ever really posed was ... |
ad3a19e470eca0eb97d081da1d1f0871 | https://www.historynet.com/death-of-the-wehrmacht.htm | Death of the Wehrmacht | Death of the Wehrmacht
In 1942, the German Army, turning one last time to its traditional Prussian tactics of maneuver, met its end.
That 1942 was the turning point of World War II is one of those “facts” that everyone knows. Like much of the received wisdom on the war, however, the concept of its “turning point” requi... |
0e6d823235daa94fcb16c95ed92cfeb8 | https://www.historynet.com/death-stalks-the-capital.htm | Death Stalks the Capital | Death Stalks the Capital
Gripped by the fear of an insidious plague stalking its streets, no one, rich or poor, was safe in the nation’s capital and largest city in the summer of 1793. Forty percent of its residents, among them President George Washington and many of the young republic’s founders, would flee the grueso... |
1e40627f73575b4a305d06875e51b0b4 | https://www.historynet.com/december-2020-readers-letters.htm | December 2020 Readers’ Letters | December 2020 Readers’ Letters
Wicked Towns Great article [“Dead Men for Breakfast,” by Ron Soodalter, August 2020] on wicked Wild West towns. One town that should be on any such list is Caldwell, Kan. In the five years of Caldwell’s cow town era (1879–84) 14 different men wore the town marshal badge. Before the end of... |
eef380c755a29ba91c591b1dc4f254b1 | https://www.historynet.com/deputy-u-s-marshal-true-grit-novel-two-films-real-life.htm | The Deputy U.S. Marshal Had True Grit In the Novel, Two Films and Real Life | The Deputy U.S. Marshal Had True Grit In the Novel, Two Films and Real Life
Indian Territory marshals had their work cut out for them.
John Wayne, as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn, thunders across the screen, wearing a patch over his left eye, holding a six-gun in his left hand, a Winchester in his ri... |
4d9b0a16b154e0dda2031d476ddb02a2 | https://www.historynet.com/desert-one-documentary-chronicles-challenges-lessons-of-operation-eagle-claw.htm | ‘Desert One’ Documentary Chronicles Challenges, Lessons of Operation Eagle Claw | ‘Desert One’ Documentary Chronicles Challenges, Lessons of Operation Eagle Claw
Nineteen-year-old Sgt. Kevin Hermening had never heard of Iran when he learned he was headed to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as a Marine Security Guard in 1979.
Originally anticipating an assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Germany, Hermening v... |
3bd08be2a1e542a86717aac2171e3cad | https://www.historynet.com/desperate-stand-brickyard-fight-gettysburg.htm | 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. ... |
c96cfd1e7b10c85a95960afdfde8340d | https://www.historynet.com/diana-kouris-she-knows-browns-park.htm | 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... |
d1f6e0bc4a75216ef6d2af9bc20f2bf1 | https://www.historynet.com/diary-morgan-raider.htm | 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 ... |
a13b1665dbafcc1886fb54c714eaf0cc | https://www.historynet.com/did-muslims-explore-america-was-there-a-swedish-colony.htm | 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... |
12bfcf097cd8367e23698993f91162fe | https://www.historynet.com/dinosaur-wars-in-the-american-west.htm | Dinosaur Wars in the American West | Dinosaur Wars in the American West
Two men's rivalry in the 1800s expanded scientific knowledge about prehistoric life. Courtesy American Museum of Natural History.
The venerable, award–winning series American Experience has often featured engaging stories about the American West. Several of the episodes of the Native ... |
7d0a1612c48f2837f09d94d3759ceb9e | https://www.historynet.com/divers-find-rare-nazi-enigma-machine-in-the-baltic-sea.htm | 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... |
d97ef64a629fa2c07a840a00274ba53b | https://www.historynet.com/dod-draws-distinction-between-neo-nazi-membership-and-active-participation.htm | DoD Draws Distinction Between Neo-Nazi Membership and ‘Active Participation’ | DoD Draws Distinction Between Neo-Nazi Membership and ‘Active Participation’
On the eve of the 75th anniversary of V-E Day, this past Tuesday defense officials told a House subcommittee that belonging to a white supremacist or neo-Nazi group would not automatically get a service member kicked out of the U.S. military.
... |
01113c6646ccccc11a60a94b4807a6ec | https://www.historynet.com/dooley.htm | Famed doctor Tom Dooley secretly helped CIA | Famed doctor Tom Dooley secretly helped CIA
Throughout the mid-to-late 1950s, Dr. Thomas Anthony Dooley III was widely celebrated as embodying the great and unselfish good of American aid. His humanitarian medical assistance in rural areas of Laos and Vietnam during the early U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia was wide... |
b137a6614f46e592ae5851918aef8712 | https://www.historynet.com/double-killing-fort-worth.htm | Double Killing in Fort Worth | Double Killing in Fort Worth
A sheriff and a lawyer had a brief run-in during a town picnic in July 1861, but a month later they ran into each other again—with deadly results.
In 1861 Sheriff John B. York and Archibald Y. Fowler, a lawyer as adept with a bowie knife as he was with an argument, resided in Fort Worth, a ... |
35bdce082018ed486d69dda2e658b896 | https://www.historynet.com/douglas-a-4-skyhawks-provided-support-for-vietnam-war.htm | Douglas A-4 Skyhawks: Provided Support For Vietnam War | Douglas A-4 Skyhawks: Provided Support For Vietnam War
Marine pilots in their diminutive Douglas A-4 Skyhawks provided vital close air support for ground forces in Vietnam.
When infantrymen of the 1st Marine Division waded ashore at Da Nang in March 1965, the conflict in Southeast Asia might have seemed quite a low-key... |
ef18a4c7cf24d1cf184cc3929988feee | https://www.historynet.com/douglas-pike-tragedy-times.htm | Douglas Pike On the Tragedy of Our Times | Douglas Pike On the Tragedy of Our Times
Tough questions remained even for the man who arguably knew the intricacies of Vietnam better than anyone else.
INTRODUCTION
Douglas Pike arrived in Saigon in 1960 as an employee of the U.S. Agency for International Development. He spent much of the next 15 years in country, int... |
634223c50635f9c0bdaa11eae9d986fb | https://www.historynet.com/dr-lawrence-h-climo-recalls-his-vietnam-war-service.htm | Dr. Lawrence H. Climo Recalls His Vietnam War Service | Dr. Lawrence H. Climo Recalls His Vietnam War Service
In the spring of 1965 I was 27 years old, single and on the last leg of my internship. I was also emotionally drained. Six uninterrupted years on a treadmill of demanding medical studies had left me desperate to slow down. When my induction notice arrived, I initial... |
03620518066ee2631d93eb14cce41011 | https://www.historynet.com/dr-shadids-maverick-medicine.htm | Dr. Shadid’s Maverick Medicine | Dr. Shadid’s Maverick Medicine
Dr. Shadid dared to imagine that affordable quality health care should—and could—be accessible to all.
For 20 years, Michael Shadid lived the life of an Oklahoma country doctor. It was a vocation that required a young man’s endurance. Shadid trekked through dust storms and blizzards, ofte... |
579acd757c99a397395d164a11364c67 | https://www.historynet.com/dragonlady.htm | The U-2C “Dragon Lady” Spy Plane | The U-2C “Dragon Lady” Spy Plane
Beginning Aug. 4, 1959, the CIA conducted a series of U-2 missions over North Vietnam that provided the first confirmed evidence of the communist country’s airfield construction and other military activities. In the era preceding satellite imagery, the U-2, nicknamed the “Dragon Lad... |
a3e822cd7b1d8aad79fcd07af2d2f36d | https://www.historynet.com/drones-hollywood-connection.htm | Hollywood and Drones: The Forgotten Connection | Hollywood and Drones: The Forgotten Connection
Actor Reginald Denny was instrumental in launching the target drone, and his factory launched a new star.
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), better known as drones, have generated plenty of controversy in recent years. In addition to questions surrounding their employment i... |
8ef39a7508e69346a31a1c6ade4f36b0 | https://www.historynet.com/dunkirk-fionn.htm | FILM RECON Interview: Fionn Whitehead on “Dunkirk” | FILM RECON Interview: Fionn Whitehead on “Dunkirk”
Fionn Whitehead, 19, acted on stage and in a miniseries before Christopher Nolan selected him for the lead role in Dunkirk. He spoke to Senior Editor Paraag Shukla of World War II magazine about the film, which opens in theaters on July 21, 2017.
How did you first beco... |
34325b1f0b3fb15aba5d8d8632b460a9 | https://www.historynet.com/dvd-review-sweetwater-by-kickstart-productions-and-arc-entertainment.htm | DVD Review: Sweetwater, by Kickstart Productions and Arc Entertainment | DVD Review: Sweetwater, by Kickstart Productions and Arc Entertainment
Sweetwater, 95 minutes, Kickstart Productions, Arc Entertainment, 2013, $20.99
Directed by Logan Miller and written by Logan and brother Noah, Sweetwater is a B-Western that trots over familiar territory—revenge. Actually “trots over” might come acr... |
023d257cb789188ef8970a000e6b7fa2 | https://www.historynet.com/e-flight-crews-flew-sanitized-c-130-ghost-planes.htm | E Flight crews flew sanitized C-130 ‘ghost planes’ | E Flight crews flew sanitized C-130 ‘ghost planes’
During the summer of 1970, I was assigned to the U.S. Air Force 374th Tactical Airlift Wing (374th TAW) at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base (CCK), Taiwan, as a C-130 master crew chief. It was designated as an “unaccompanied assignment,” which meant family members were not aut... |
cc74cdc20686c38be874a51245c1ba79 | https://www.historynet.com/easy-living-in-a-hard-war-behind-the-lines-in-vietnam.htm?fbclid=IwAR3gEUe8ZhyI-GX08N6rwNFcaGKfoaOmBzlHr_kRk-r52c97gCi2D2UFCKg | Easy Living in a Hard War: Behind the Lines in Vietnam | Easy Living in a Hard War: Behind the Lines in Vietnam
A Marine private tries out a skateboard sent from home. Soldiers behind the lines often had lots of downtime. (Sgt. Licciardi/U.S. Marine Corps/National Archives)
IN AUGUST 1970, the Army Reporter newspaper profiled some fun-loving clerks of the 25th Infantry Divis... |
cd9793cda530aa54f1f8d0602cac11aa | https://www.historynet.com/effect-1833-force-act-civil-war.htm | What Effect did the 1833 Force Act have on the Civil War? | What Effect did the 1833 Force Act have on the Civil War?
The 1833 Force Bill would have given President Jackson an “authority (?)” to use force against the State of South Carolina, then threatening to secede if the 1828 tariff was not annulled by Congress. All of the states voluntarily ratified the Constitution in 178... |
7943a148d051cd33980232132a8b8cc2 | https://www.historynet.com/elaine-horwitch-the-mother-of-southwest-pop.htm | Elaine Horwitch: The Mother of Southwest Pop | Elaine Horwitch: The Mother of Southwest Pop
Elaine Horwitch was just 58 when she died in 1991.
Artist Billy Schenck remembers getting the phone call on Sept. 21, 1991, and being told that gallery owner Elaine Sweet Horwitch had died of a heart attack at age 58. “The first words out of my mouth were, ‘Wow, that is the ... |
93f522a32bf3590d85e9ac087f21f308 | https://www.historynet.com/embattled-banner-the-true-history-of-the-confederate-flag.htm | Embattled Banner: The True History of the Confederate Flag | Embattled Banner: The True History of the Confederate Flag
If you are a regular reader of Civil War Times, the Confederate battle flag is a familiar part of your world. The symbolism of the flag is simple and straightforward: It represents the Confederate side in the war that you enjoy studying. More than likely, your ... |
baa1aa58b8f3cc9554abd4d5d40a4d41 | https://www.historynet.com/emmy-award-winning-director-cary-joji-fukunaga-to-helm-wwii-miniseries-masters-of-the-air.htm | Upcoming WWII Series from Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks Inks Star Director | Upcoming WWII Series from Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks Inks Star Director
Cary Joji Fukunaga, the Emmy award-winning director behind the masterful first season of HBO’s “True Detective,” has signed on to direct the first three episodes of the 10-part series. Fukunaga is also at the helm of the upcoming James Bond Film,... |
d75ec8c1cc44fae1f6899e7c97178e31 | https://www.historynet.com/emory-upton-and-the-shaping-of-the-u-s-army.htm | Emory Upton and the Shaping of the U.S. Army | Emory Upton and the Shaping of the U.S. Army
Emory Upton first put his new tactics to the test at the May 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, where his men drove Confederate defenders from their positions. (Kurz & Allison/Library of Congress)
‘It was a shift in tactics that seemed tailor-made for a free people, an... |
a92563d75c00e9d44ba88f022233675c | https://www.historynet.com/empire-vs-tribe-the-roman-empire-and-the-celts.htm | Empire Vs. Tribe: The Roman Empire and the Celts | Empire Vs. Tribe: The Roman Empire and the Celts
For five centuries the Roman and Celtic armies and cultures clashed, pitting the most highly organized state of the ancient world against fierce individualists.
War horns brayed eerily, swords thudded against shields with a dull menace, and a jeering, terrifying howl wen... |
311a2851d995bdb42020aa859fe75631 | https://www.historynet.com/encounter-kit-carson-meets-president-james-k-polk.htm | Encounter: Kit Carson Meets President James K. Polk | Encounter: Kit Carson Meets President James K. Polk
When the frontiersman Kit Carson arrived in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1847, he was already a legend and folk hero. Born in a log cabin in Kentucky on Christmas Eve 1809, he had spent his life trapping beaver in the Rockies, hunting buffalo on the Great Plains... |
d5729bf9e1a11cdb1f1ca1a1660f0566 | https://www.historynet.com/enduring-lessons-from-miracle-at-st-anna.htm | Enduring Lessons from ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ | Enduring Lessons from ‘Miracle at St. Anna’
Seventy-five years after World War II’s end, the “Double-V Campaign” still falls short of being fulfilled.
Midway through director Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna, his 2008 film about a squad in the “Buffalo Soldiers,” the all-Black 92nd Infantry Division fighting in Italy in... |
5573d321cde9e6171f88cc3d714ec15f | https://www.historynet.com/erich-ludendorff-tactical-genius-strategic-fool.htm | Erich Ludendorff: Tactical Genius, Strategic Fool | Erich Ludendorff: Tactical Genius, Strategic Fool
German Chief of Staff Erich Ludendorff prolonged World War I with his revolutionary tactics—but to what end?
On a list of historical figures who have left disaster in their wake, few can top Erich Ludendorff. And yet, he was not an incompetent man. On the contrary, he w... |
9071a325d1b7ae6d1bbe554763058842 | https://www.historynet.com/ernst-udet-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-german-world-war-i-ace.htm | Ernst Udet: The Rise and Fall of a German World War I Ace | Ernst Udet: The Rise and Fall of a German World War I Ace
Germany’s second-highest-scoring ace of World War I, the colorful and boisterous Ernst Udet, had one of the most remarkable flying careers of the first half of the 20th century.
On a pale December morning in 1915 a lone Fokker Eindecker monoplane sailed high abo... |
3d7afe87a79f4fe2b49a2d42dd840317 | https://www.historynet.com/eureka-displays-academy-natural-sciences.htm | Eureka! Displays at the Academy of Natural Sciences | Eureka! Displays at the Academy of Natural Sciences
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia uncorked a sometimes maddeningly democratic process of discovery in the young republic.
In November 1868, without fanfare or even much thought to how the public might respond, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelp... |
21af34810b0e72abbcf4a0ad90000f9f | https://www.historynet.com/evolution-mountain-man-ceran-st-vrain.htm | Evolution of a Mountain Man: Ceran St. Vrain | Evolution of a Mountain Man: Ceran St. Vrain
When escalating Civil War tensions reached Taos, New Mexico Territory, Confederate sympathizers tore down the Stars and Stripes from its staff on the town plaza and resisted all attempts to restore it. So Union supporters reportedly nailed the flag to a makeshift pole hewn f... |
9d08a0ddd741ef4940b3047c90aa12e5 | https://www.historynet.com/exercise-tiger-more-deadly-than-utah-beach.htm | Exercise Tiger, More Deadly than Utah Beach? | Exercise Tiger, More Deadly than Utah Beach?
Little more than five weeks before the Allied invasion of Normandy—the largest amphibious assault the world has ever seen—a training exercise gone awry resulted in appalling carnage. Yet the April 27–28, 1944, fiasco at Slapton Sands, England, which claimed the lives of more... |
0ffaa9b99d490421abb3971cc95b0f4c | https://www.historynet.com/experience-marine-guadalcanal.htm | A Marine at Guadalcanal | A Marine at Guadalcanal
As they moved through the jungle, Roy H. Elrod and his men experienced some of World War II’s most savage combat conditions.
Roy H. Elrod was born in 1919 and grew up on a farm near Muleshoe, Texas, that his widowed mother operated. He managed to save enough money, even during the Great Depressi... |
a75581b204a7530a801f53faab2db3c1 | https://www.historynet.com/explore-antietam-a-bucolic-setting-for-a-bloody-day.htm | Explore Antietam: A Bucolic Setting for a Bloody Day | Explore Antietam: A Bucolic Setting for a Bloody Day
A few of our favorite locations on the war’s most gory single-day battlefield
Rolling hills and farmsteads and its bucolic namesake creek are a welcome natural and pastoral relief from the Washington, D.C., sprawl that keeps slowly spreading out from the Potomac Rive... |
f7eb4c72d870509dce5b40791ee885d9 | https://www.historynet.com/explore-the-haunting-remains-of-civil-war-prisons.htm/fort-mchenry-in-baltimore-maryland-is-a-historical-american-coastal-star-shaped-fort-best-known-for-its-role-in-the-war-of-1812-when-it-successful | Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a historical American coastal star-shaped fort best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successful | Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a historical American coastal star-shaped fort best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successful
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a9a8a7b97dac8382d26b7baa73ceef23 | https://www.historynet.com/exploring-gettysburg-through-the-eyes-of-its-black-citizens.htm | Exploring Gettysburg Through the Eyes of its Black Citizens | Exploring Gettysburg Through the Eyes of its Black Citizens
Basil Biggs, James Warfield, and Abraham Brian (also spelled Bryan and Brien) were farmers on what would become the Gettysburg battlefield. Warfield also ran a highly regarded blacksmith shop, and Biggs was well known for his veterinary skills. What set them a... |
05d46c66ffb840c87cbe4bb4c816c600 | https://www.historynet.com/explosion-of-the-monster-torpedo.htm | Explosion of the Monster Torpedo | Explosion of the Monster Torpedo
Thomas Morris Chester was born in 1834 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where his parents operated a restaurant that became known as a gathering place for abolitionists. (His mother was born into slavery but had escaped at age 19.) They were successful enough that they could enroll Chester,... |
5608ff10559b04555eb625ab38f87308 | https://www.historynet.com/extraordinary-career-of-raf-ace-robert-stanford-tuck-january-98-aviation-history-feature.htm | Extraordinary Career of RAF Ace Robert Stanford Tuck | Extraordinary Career of RAF Ace Robert Stanford Tuck
Tuck’s hard-won flying skill and a remarkable run of good fortune contributed to victory in the Battle of Britain.
October 24, 1935, No. 3 Flying School, Royal Air Force Station, Grantham, England. An Avro Tutor biplane trainer sits on the end of the grass runway. In... |
ecb61991705b82ee80b848a3f5b520b4 | https://www.historynet.com/eyewitness-to-american-civil-war-iron-brigade-soldiers-wartime-letters.htm | Eyewitness to American Civil War: Iron Brigade Soldier’s Wartime Letters | Eyewitness to American Civil War: Iron Brigade Soldier’s Wartime Letters
Thirty-one-year-old Timothy O. Webster, overseer at the Detroit House of Correction, enlisted in the Union Army in July 1862. Private Webster was assigned to Company F of the 24th Michigan Infantry, which was dispatched from Detroit to Washington,... |
dcf7bd4bbba492113e1955e503df99f6 | https://www.historynet.com/failed-peace-treaty-versailles-1919.htm | Failed Peace: The Treaty of Versailles, 1919 | Failed Peace: The Treaty of Versailles, 1919
What “everyone knows” about the infamous treaty ending World War I is wrong!
Although we typically think of November 11, 1918, as the end date of World War I, that day only marked the start of an armistice ending the actual fighting, not the official termination of the war. ... |
2abfbab38ce26a140d353e6f0cd53e32 | https://www.historynet.com/father-emergency-medicine.htm | Father of Emergency Medicine | Father of Emergency Medicine
Jonathan Letterman’s Civil War innovations revolutionized military and civilian trauma care.
In July 1861, after the First Battle of Bull Run, with about 5,000 soldiers dead or wounded, it took almost a week to remove Union and Confederate casualties from the field. In July 1863, after Gett... |
63f388020a2440e1f656dd039b40e336 | https://www.historynet.com/fdr-polio.htm | Smiling Through a Personal Apocalypse | Smiling Through a Personal Apocalypse
FDR got polio, but polio didn’t get him
AS THE 20th CENTURY dawned, American summers stopped being times of fireflies, baseball, and beaches to become seasons of terror. Each year with warm weather came some new proscription for parents: Keep children away from crowds, ice cream pa... |
809a04f40582ad28cd23893143295b54 | https://www.historynet.com/female-wwii-pilot.htm | World War II female Spitfire pilot dies at 103 | World War II female Spitfire pilot dies at 103
Eleanor Wadsworth, one of the last surviving female pilots of World War II, died in December following an illness, the BBC reported.
Wadsworth was born in Nottingham and joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1943 at age 25 as a response to an advertisement for female... |
ae0513f06ba6b1adc74c8e47020798c2 | https://www.historynet.com/fighter-pilot-hermann-goring.htm | Fighter Pilot: Hermann Göring | Fighter Pilot: Hermann Göring
Monday evenings in late 1922, the Cafe Neumayr in Munich played host to a collection of unsavory, lower-middle-class war veterans, rabble-rousers, malcontents and would-be revolutionaries, grumbling over Germany’s anarchic postwar politics. Their radical ambitions would likely have come to... |
7f98b796c936ebc1116e8c9db6981226 | https://www.historynet.com/fighting-multiple-fronts.htm | Fighting on Multiple Fronts | Fighting on Multiple Fronts
Should campaigns against Native Americans and Confederates be viewed as one war or two?
During the last weeks of August 1862, Dakota Sioux warriors cut a violent swath through much of Minnesota. Far to the southeast, Union forces battled Confederates in the campaign that led to the Second Ba... |
b83dc115a9a9832f233a1b99f91f906f | https://www.historynet.com/fighting-words-from-the-world-wars-to-korea.htm | Fighting Words: From the World Wars to Korea | Fighting Words: From the World Wars to Korea
U.S. infantrymen in Korea take cover in a tunnel while they wait for orders and “sweat it out”—one of many phrases used commonly in the Korean War but born of an earlier era. (U.S. Army/National Archives)
THE SLANG OF “THE FORGOTTEN WAR” as the Korean conflict from 1950 to 1... |
bb1b00b36a4db1f2793bb2e421a777b4 | https://www.historynet.com/fighting-words-military-terms-that-apply-to-sports.htm | Fighting Words: Military Terms That Apply to Sports | Fighting Words: Military Terms That Apply to Sports
On January 5th, 1945 a Japanese kamikaze made a suicide attack on the USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62). (National Archives)MHQ Home Page
Frank Gifford, a Hall of Fame halfback turned broadcaster, once said, “Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only sur... |
61d693947f8b10a2d5d67ba2960f335b | https://www.historynet.com/fighting-words-sherman-hood.htm | Fighting Words Between Sherman and Hood | Fighting Words Between Sherman and Hood
With Atlanta at stake, William Tecumseh Sherman and John Bell Hood test whether the pen is mightier than the sword.
Through the long summer of 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman kept his sights set on one of the remaining jewels in the Confederate crown: Atlanta. The rail hub... |
a5cb4e889503dffd0b051a849bbef5b7 | https://www.historynet.com/film-recon-interview-anthony-maras-hotel-mumbai.htm | FILM RECON Interview: Anthony Maras on “Hotel Mumbai” | FILM RECON Interview: Anthony Maras on “Hotel Mumbai”
Anthony Maras is an Australian film director, writer and producer who has made several acclaimed and award-winning short films, including The Palace, a 2011 thriller about the 1974 invasion of Cyprus. After extensively researching the 2008 Mumbai attacks, he co-wrot... |
ed9675ad2bd239a1dfc3218ed56552e3 | https://www.historynet.com/film-recon-interview-anupam-kher-hotel-mumbai.htm | FILM RECON Interview: Anupam Kher on “Hotel Mumbai” | FILM RECON Interview: Anupam Kher on “Hotel Mumbai”
Anupam Kher is one of India’s most successful and prolific actors. Since 1982, he has appeared in more than 500 films. Best known to Western audiences for his roles in films like Bend it Like Beckham, Silver Linings Playbook, and The Big Sick, he next appears in Hotel... |
080664634c036be8ef118604ae48dd17 | https://www.historynet.com/film-recon-interview-beau-willimon-mqos.htm | FILM RECON Interview: Beau Willimon on “Mary Queen of Scots” | FILM RECON Interview: Beau Willimon on “Mary Queen of Scots”
Beau Willimon, 41, is a successful screenwriter and playwright. Prior to writing Mary Queen of Scots, Willimon developed the American adaptation of House of Cards for Netflix. He spoke to Senior Editor Paraag Shukla about the film, which opens in theaters on ... |
07ccae96f9ac0399527dfeea70f4ff29 | https://www.historynet.com/film-recon-interview-jack-lowden-mqos.htm | FILM RECON Interview: Jack Lowden on “Mary Queen of Scots” | FILM RECON Interview: Jack Lowden on “Mary Queen of Scots”
Jack Lowden, 28, is a successful and award-winning actor. Prior to being cast as Lord Darnley in Josie Rourke’s Mary Queen of Scots, Lowden performed on stage as well as in television and film projects. He spoke to Senior Editor Paraag Shukla about the film, wh... |
3b1c2aa4c624ba3ab816a4999e624579 | https://www.historynet.com/film-recon-interview-josie-rourke-mqos.htm | FILM RECON Interview: Josie Rourke on “Mary Queen of Scots” | FILM RECON Interview: Josie Rourke on “Mary Queen of Scots”
Josie Rourke, 42, is an award-winning theater and film director. She has worked in theater since 1998 and, in 2011, became the first woman named Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse in London. Rourke spoke to Senior Editor Paraag Shukla about Mary Queen o... |
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