By David H. Lippman
In the darkness, the two American submarines moved toward the hostile beach, inching carefully through badly marked waters. They surfaced well before dawn, and the Marine Raiders and submarine crews began bringing up rubber boats from below, inflating them on deck, installing outboard motors, and filling them   More »

The World War II odyssey of Bob Max made a lasting impression and fueled educational and philanthropic pursuits later in life.   More »

Kansas Brigadier James Henry Lane’s zealous prosecution of the Union cause made him a marked man in the western theater.   More »

Ernest Cuneo helped the Roosevelt administration with little fanfare before, during, and after World War II.   More »

Ernest Cuneo helped the Roosevelt administration with little fanfare before, during, and after World War II.   More »

Historians are always in argument over how General Kilpatrick’s raid on Richmond had failed, but how did it come about? Read more about it inside.   More »

American infantrymen carried the model 1903 Springfield rifle into battle with them for the first seven decades of the 20th century.   More »

Ulysses S. Grant would later admit that Cold Harbor was the one battle he “would not fight again.” Many federal soldiers who survived would agree.   More »

In the deep woods of Chickamauga Creek, wary Union and Confederate soldiers thrashed the the under brush seeking a confrontation to the death.   More »

Thaddeus Lowe and his Union Army Balloon Corps pioneered aerial reconnaissance over some of the first battlefields of the American Civil War.   More »