Willie Johnson was a 35-year-old African American from South Carolina with a wife and six…
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At Eight-Years-Old This Girl Survived the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. Now, at 90, She Recalls Her Ordeal.
Leanne Blinzler Noe was eight years old and living in the Philippines with her family…
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Meet the Heroes Who Delivered Aid and Comforted the Dying on the Battlefields of World War I
In the agony of trench warfare and no man’s land, the sound of a skitter…
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The word “propaganda” evokes many images, few of them positive. We often think of propaganda…
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The Asiatic-Pacific Theater in World War II culminated with a grueling, bloody amphibious campaign to…
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“The ‘Tondelayo’ was being knocked about the sky … climbing, diving and making corkscrew patterns…
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Cephas William “Dick” Parr (1843–1911) never achieved the fame of fellow scout turned showman William…
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Probably no other aircraft from World War II are as easily recognized as the shark-mouthed…
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America is a nation built on distinct individualism as well as common values. This sense…
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The lyrics to America’s most famous marching song of the Civil War were written when…