Lorenzo Barruscotto: Drawing on Spaghetti Westerns
The Italian artist takes inspiration from both the ‘reel’ and real West
Touring France’s Limousin Region, Where Maquis Fighters Once Battled the Wehrmacht
In 1944, the Nazis attempted to vanquish Resistance leader George Guingouin’s rural guerrilla force in the Battle of Mont-Gargan.
Walking Point with the Redcatchers
New arrivals in Vietnam were broken in by "walking point" - becoming the eyes and ears of a patrol. This dangerous duty weighed on everyone’s mind.
‘The Age of Wood’ Review: The Simple Stuff That Created Civilization
When protohumans climbed down from trees, they chopped them down and used them to create a new world
The Nightingale’s Lament: Poetry of Rebellion
A poet's tribute to Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for Britain in World War I
Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing
In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war
This Famous Bathtub Has Met its Waterloo
Imagine the poor PFC tasked with lugging around Napoleon’s personal bathtub
Letter From Wild West — June 2021
For bad or worse, ‘outlaws’ come to mind at the mention of Indian Territory
On-Screen Review: News of the World
In this Paul Greengrass film Tom Hanks plays a town crier who escorts a lost waif through wild and woolly Reconstruction-era Texas
What Happened to ‘Operation Vengeance’ Wingman Raymond K. Hine?
Pilots involved in the mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto reported seeing Hine’s left engine smoking, but no one saw him go down.
The Soviet Union’s Top-Secret Operation to Repatriate Downed U.S. Airmen
Hundreds of American fliers ended up stranded in Siberia—creating a conundrum for the Soviets, who were not at war with nearby Japan.
Marketing Abraham Lincoln to the Masses
The President’s faithful secretaries led a crusade to preserve his place in history
Vendetta: Athens vs. Sicily
When Athens sent a massive invasion fleet against Syracuse, a merciless Sicilian vendetta followed
Breaking the Blockade Review: The Bahamas During the Civil War
During its heyday, blockade running was a systematic and, for many, a lucrative operation run by a cartel of industrious merchant princes
‘Does This Signed Nazi Flag Belong in a Museum?’
Curators at The National World War II Museum solve readers’ artifact mysteries.
The Tensions of a Controversial War Explode at Kent State University on May 4, 1970
The Kent State shootings reconsidered
