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From the NFL to the Sands of Iwo Jima: Medal of Honor Recipient Jack Lummus
WWII’s Freeman Field Mutiny: The Black Officers Who Took a Stand Against Segregation
WWII Tanks – The M3 Grant: A Flawed but Vital Stopgap That Held the Line at a Critical Moment
The M1 Helmet: The US Military’s Protective Headgear in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam
The Deadly M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer: WWII’s Fastest Tracked Armored Fighting Vehicle
When Surrounded US Marines Requested Ammunition and Got Tootsie Rolls Instead
WWII Bombers – A-36 Apache, the Formidable P-51 Mustang’s Ground Attack Variant
The Underappreciated Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: One of WWII’s Most Important Fighters
American Tanks of World War II: The M3 Stuart Light Tank
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it in Their Pants – Grover Cleveland’s Scandals: Assaulting a Date, and Grooming a Child Bride
The Office Safe That Killed Whiskey Distiller Jack Daniel
The Grumman F8F Bearcat: The Pinnacle of Piston Engine Fighter Design and Technology
The Shaggs: A Prophecy, a Dad’s Delusions, and an Awful Album that Became a Cult Classic
The 1974 White House Helicopter Incident: When a Disturbed Army Private Landed a Stolen Huey on the White House Lawn
Chappie James: America’s First Black Four-Star General
Civil War Child Soldier John Cook Joined the Union Army Aged Thirteen, Won a Medal of Honor When He Was Fifteen
‘He Never Killed a Man That Didn’t Need Killing’: Wild West Gunslinger Clay Allison
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, America’s Key Fighter for Most of the Cold War
Project Needles: When the US Seeded Space With Hundreds of Millions of Tiny Needles
Eugene Bullard: The First African American Fighter Pilot Flew for France in WWI When America’s Military Wouldn’t Have Him
Ford’s Edsel Debacle: One of the Biggest Flops in Business History
Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Squadron: America’s WWII Black Pilots
The Pioneer Probes Plaque, and the Controversy About Sharing Earth’s Address With the Universe
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: George H. W. Bush’s Affairs
The Tycoon and the Teenager: When Actress Jane Greer Rejected His Advances, Howard Hughes Bought a Studio to Wreck Her Career
William Henry Johnson, the “Black Death” Whose WWI Heroism Was Overlooked for Nearly a Century
Myths and Realities: Just How Real Was Hollywood’s ‘The Alamo’?
WWI’s Harlem Hellfighters: The African Americans Who Fought for Freedom Abroad While it Was Denied them at Home
Bela Lugosi, ‘Hollywood’s Prince of Darkness’, Fought Real Life Monsters as an Antifascist Labor Activist
Megastar Josephine Baker Risked Her Life for the French Resistance to Spy on the Nazis in WWII
The Original Black Panthers: WWII’s African-American 761st Tank Battalion
Wild West Outlaws: Charlie Bowdre, the Regulator Turned Cattle Rustler
Al Blozis, the NFL All-Pro Who Gave Up Football and His Life to Fight the Nazis
Iva Toguri: The American Woman Stranded in WWII Japan Who Became ‘Tokyo Rose’
Ed “Too Tall” Freeman: The Heroic Helicopter Pilot Who Saved Dozens of Lives in Vietnam
Henry Repeating Rifle: A Revolutionary Firearm and Cartridge Combo that Showed What Rifles Could Become
Business Pioneer Edna Murphey Created the Deodorant Industry by Convincing Women they Smelled Bad
Wealthy Heiress Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army: From Kidnapped Rich Girl to Radical Revolutionary
WWII Fighters – The Controversial P-39 Airacobra: Derided by Western Pilots, Beloved by Soviet Flyers
The Baron of Arizona: James Reavis, the Wild West’s Most Brazen Conman
Strongwoman Katie Sandwina, the ‘Lady Hercules’ and Pioneer of Women’s Strength Sports
The Story Behind an Iconic Photo: The Kent State Shootings Photo
The Great Molasses Flood: When Boston Was Engulfed in a Sticky Tsunami
Clark Gable Ditched Hollywood in WWII to Fight the Nazis in a B-17
Ten Cent Beer Night Riot: The Worst Promotion in American Sports History
WWII’s M1 Bazooka: The Granddaddy of Man-Portable Rocket Launchers
Algernon Sidney: The Anti-Royalist Aristocrat Who Wrote the ‘Textbook of the American Revolution’
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin: The Teenager Who Defied Segregation
Patton’s Transformation of II Corps: Restoring the Confidence of Defeated and Demoralized GIs
Aldrich Ames: The KGB’s Most Damaging Mole Inside the CIA
Stephanie St. Clair: The Harlem Gambling Queen Who Took On the Mafia and NYPD
Cus D’Amato: Inventor of Peek-a-boo Boxing and Creator of Champions
The F-86 Sabre Beat Back the MiG-15 Over Korea, and Became the Most Produced Western Jet Fighter
Law Enforcement Pioneer Samuel J. Battle, the NYPD’s First Black Officer
Operation Flagship: The Sting that Captured 101 Fugitives With the Promise of Free Redskins Tickets
The Bell AH-1 Cobra in Vietnam: A Stopgap Design that Revolutionized Helicopter Warfare
The 1916 Columbus Raid: When Pancho Villa Attacked an American Town
Rachel Wall: America’s First Female Pirate
Typhoid Mary, and How Far Government Can Go to Protect Public Health
Sandblom’s Santa: How Coca-Cola Standardized the Modern Image of Santa Claus
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