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  • Bonapartists in the United States
    The century between 1750 and 1850 witnessed a period of immense transformation, politically, economically and culturally. New ideas, revolutions, wars and the rise of industrialism shook the known world, bringing great men to rise and at the same time devastating old institutions. Out of these ruins a new world evolved, the world we live in today. In those p […]
  • Ancient History in 15 minutes: Mesopotamia
    The "Timewatch" series are intended for all history enthusiasts - novices or experts alike. It's goal is to make complex history concise and understandable in maximum 2000 words. It tries to avoid the dry, musty and scholarly style that is inherent to many historical works. Timewatch wants to make the past fun and underderstandable! In this 1s […]
  • Edwin Stanton at War
    The first of two parts chronicling the boldness of Edwin Stanton. This entry discusses Stanton's role leading up to the conclusion of the American Civil War. Part two will discuss his role in early Reconstruction. […]
  • John Ericsson
    You can make whatever you wish of this man... the propeller, his financial ineptitude, his overbearing personality, his gun and match recoil design, his engineering genius, or the USS Monitors impact upon the American Civil War... this man was a patriot! […]

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  • Comment on Hurray For The Two-Party System by frankchadwick
    Andy, with respect to the non-structural nature of the U.S. two-party system, you are correct that there is nothing constitutional which mandates two parties and we have nad multiple parties in the past -- in fact have one socialist and one independent senator right now. But the campaign finance laws currently favor two parties, since there is a support thre […]
  • Comment on Hurray For The Two-Party System by frankchadwick
    Andy, I can't say for sure what I would have done instead, and I'm not certain my wisdom on the subject would be all that valuable at this remove. From what I know of the situation, however, I am reasonably certain that the U.S. architects of Iraq's current governmental structure deliberately accentuated the a three-way split which could not b […]
  • Comment on What Does This Say? by frankchadwick
    Barbara, I understand what you are saying but no one sent Iman al-Hams to die. She was simply a little girl who apparently got lost. Tom, the source article is not from the New York Times, and I do not work for them, but I would be proud to do so. […]
  • Comment on An End to the Ghurkas? by frankchadwick
    Sensemaker, I went back and deleted your comments on that column, which is the only way I know to make sure your name no longer shows up. Do Swedish employers not have the option of probationary periods for new hires? […]
  • Comment on What Does This Say? by mikiehorn
    http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/768631631.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+16%2C+2004&author=Jerusalem+Post+Staff&pub=Jerusalem+Post&edition=&startpage=02&desc=IDF+commander+%27had+no+idea%27+he+killed+young+girl Initial trial goes back to 2004!!! Conflicting versions of the events seem to make this case less clear than […]

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  • Obama and Lincoln in the White House
    President Barack Obama dicusses the Emacipation Proclamation with guests. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. This past June, while the sputtering economy, seemingly bottomless oil spill and the war in Afghanistan dominated headlines, a distinguished "visitor" departed the White House after five quiet months in residence. Too few people ever […]
  • The Overmountain Men Battle for the Carolinas
    At the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain, a force of backwoods hunters known as the overmountain men thrashed the Loyalists, altering the destiny of the Southern states. […]
  • Was Secession Legal
    Southerners insisted they could legally bolt from the Union. Northerners swore they could not. War would settle the matter for good. Over the centuries, various excuses have been employed for starting wars. Wars have been fought over land or honor. Wars have been fought over soccer (in the case of the conflict between Honduras and El [...] […]
  • Interview with Author Sebastian Junger
    Best-selling author Sebastian Junger joined an Army combat infantry unit on its 15-month deployment to research his latest book, War. […]
  • Military History - November 2010 - Letters from Readers
    Readers letters in the November 2010 issue of Military History sound off about the 1975 Mayaguez Incident, the 1948-60 Malayan Emergency, U-boats, author Evan Thomas, the 1967-70 Suez War of Attrition, the 1899-1902 Second Boer War, female submariners and North Korean aggression. […]

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There are hundreds of little-known stories from WWII that would make for great drama. One of them took place in the wilds of Borneo in 1944–45 and is told in the documentary 'The Airmen and the Headhunters' on PBS.  More.
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The mass media has put forth some effort to use this Veterans Day period to honor service people. It’s also a good time to review the programs and projects with timely themes, of which there have been several in the past year.  More.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, faced with national economic and natural resource crises, convinced the U. S. Congress in his first 100 days in office to pass legislation to get the country moving again. One of the opening salvos in the New Deal was the Civilian Conservation Corps.  More.
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To some, parallels between America's situation in the beginning of the 1930s and at the end of the new millennium's first decade are frighteningly similar. Upon closer look, they may be even more so. A new series on PBS' American Experience.  More.
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You dig up something old and potentially interesting in the attic. Is it historic? Is it worth something? The History Detectives can help!  More.
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Was the real Bat Masterson the cane-carrying dandy of the 1950s television series? Or was there more to this Western character?  More.
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If you are not able to attend one of the D-Day 65th anniversary commemoration ceremonies you're in luck. The programmers at TV's history-friendly networks have laid out a schedule of interesting programs to coincide with this historic event.  More.
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The last of the 5-part American Experience series on Native Americans, We Shall Remain, is entitled "Wounded Knee." It deals with the tense 1973 occupation of part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.  More.
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One of the greatest entertainment franchises of all time is Star Trek, an obscure television series of the 1960s that has morphed into a multi-billion dollar industry that seems to have no end.  More.
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Saddened by garbage littering the hallowed ground of Red Beach on Tarawa, World War II veteran Leon Cooper decided to do something about it.  More.
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Native Americans have long been part of American popular culture. Television has finally produced a high-profile, intelligent look at American Indians in We Shall Remain, a new five-part American Experience series from PBS icon WGBH in Boston.  More.
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