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The Centennial Fire
by Chris Wimmer The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to November 10, 1876. Millions of visitors flocked to Philadelphia to see the show. But two months before...
The Iraq Warâs Legacies for Women in Combat
On March 20, 2005, two years to the day after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, Army Specialist Ashley Pullen drove a Humvee in a routine patrol south of Baghdad. Pullen was a member of...
War and Reconciliation
by Tom Clavin Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and Iowa. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1954, attaining flight pilot and instructor status...
In Pursuit of Merchant Status: The Migration Strategy of Early Twentieth Chinese Restaurant Owners under Chinese Exclusion
This post originally appeared in the 2022 issue of The American Historian. In 1921, dozens of investors celebrated the grand opening of Chin Leeâs Restaurant in New York....
The Rise of the Weimar Republic
by Susan Ronald In the following excerpt from Hitler’s Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the Weimar Republic and the political environment that enabled the rise of...
Crary of the North…and South
by Tom Clavin It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the North Pole. Specifically, the aircraft was a ski-modified U.S. Air Force C-47. The pilot was 33-year-old William...
The Urban Upwelling
Photo by Transformer18, under Creative Commons 2.0 license. This post originally appeared in the November 2015 issue of The American Historian. In late September 2015 a video...