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The Real Deadwood: A Gold Rush Town Built in a War Zone but Obliterated in an Inferno
Nov 13, 2025Gunslinging, gold-panning, stagecoach robbing, whiskey guzzling – the myth and infamy of the American West is synonymous with its most famous town: Deadwood, South Dakota. The storied mining town spra...
America's Pacific Dawn: The Spanish-American War Ushered In Global Reach and Savage Conflict
Nov 11, 2025Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross, was in Havana in 1898, investigating the terrible conditions endured by Cubans whom the Spanish government had forced into concentration camps, where an est...
The Unhealed Wounds of WW2 POWs and Combat Veterans
Nov 06, 2025Nearly 16.4 million Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II, and for millions of survivors, the fighting left many of them physically and mentally broken for life. There was a 25% de...
Robert McNamara Thought Enough Data Could Win Any War. Instead, It Led America to the Vietnam Quagmire
Nov 04, 2025Robert S. McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense during JFK and LBJ’s administrations, and one of the chief architects of the Vietnam war, made a shocking confession in his 1995 memoir. He said “We we...
The Philistine Connection: Do the Roots of October 7 Go Back 3,000 Years?
Oct 30, 2025The October 7th attacks of Hamas on Israel were an unprecedented, surprise incursion by land, sea, and air that stunned the world and prompted Israel to declare war. The attacks, which included massac...
The Thucydides Trap: How A Rising Athens Made The Peloponnesian War Inevitable
Oct 28, 2025The Peloponnesian War is considered one of the most famous wars of the ancient world not only because it was a massive and devastating conflict that reshaped the Greek world, but also because its thor...
The Free French Army in North Africa, 1940-1945
Oct 23, 2025One of the principal architects of Allied Victory in North Africa during World War Two was French General Louis Dio. His importance in North Africa lies in his role as a key leader of the Free French ...
An Inventor’s Quest to Build a Pneumatic Subway System in 1870s New York
Oct 21, 2025Alfred Beach built America’s first operational subway in secret beneath 1860s Manhattan, decades before the city’s official electric subway line in 1904. He designed and commissioned a 300-foot-long, ...
Spirited Rivalry: Did Ireland or Scotland Invent Whisky?
Oct 16, 2025There’s a divide between Scotland and Ireland as fierce as the Protestant/Catholic split during the Thirty Years’ War or the battles between Sunnis and Shias in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. It’s th...
The Horse That Ate the Legion: Rome’s Cavalry's Triumph Over the Infantry
Oct 14, 2025The cavalry 'wings' that probed ahead of the Roman Army played a key role in its campaigns of conquest, masking its marching flanks and seeking to encircle enemies in battle. However, at the very begi...