The Journal of American History compiled the following index for readers who would like to learn more about the history of abortion, reproductive rights, and Roe v. Wade. Updated in 2022, this index consists of more than two dozen book and film reviews printed in the...
by Tom Clavin 78 years ago Joe Moser was shot down during his 44th mission. Joe is the main character in my most recent solo book, Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival. It was published in hardcover … Read the article The post War and Peace appeared first...
by Daniel Stashower You helped bring down Al Capone before you turned thirty. What do you do for an encore? Eliot Ness. This image is in the public domain via Wikicommons. When we think of Eliot Ness, we think of … Read the article The post Eliot Ness’s Second Act:...
by Tom Clavin August 29th is the anniversary of the discovery of Ishi. No, this is not an island or one of Jupiter’s moons. At the time when Ishi was found, on August 29, 1911, he was touted as the … Read the article The post The Last of His Tribe appeared first on...
by Sinclair McKay These were children who had known only a world of violence. Yet amid the bloodied ruins of Berlin in 1945, apartment blocks and entire streets transformed into canyons of jagged rubble, older women and men moving around … Read the article The post...
by Tom Clavin Annie Oakley is one of those Wild West figures whose name is familiar to many people but they don’t know much about her. In honor of the anniversary of her birthday on August 13, let’s find out … Read the article The post The Shootist appeared first on...
by Jefferson Morley Scorpions’ Dance by Jefferson Morley is the untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. In the following excerpt from the book, Morley covers Helms’ not … Read the...
The June issue of the Journal of American History is available online and in print. Included are articles by Douglas Winiarski, Richard Bell, Lara Vapnek, and Joanna Cohen’s Editor’s Choice article, “Reckoning with the Riots: Property, Belongings, and the Challenge...
by Tom Clavin There are two reasons to write about James Butler Hickok right now. One is baseball. We are in what the sport’s scribes call the “dog days” of the season when the pennant races become as hot as … Read the article The post Wild Bill: Baseball and Deadwood...
by Buddy Levy Robert Peary gets all the accolades (and plenty of warranted skepticism) for being the first to the North Pole, but he would never have made it there (if he did) without the intrepid master mariner and ice … Read the article The post The Men Who Led...
by Kostya Kennedy True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson by Kostya Kennedy is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball’s—and America’s—most significant figures. Read an excerpt below. Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers....
by P. T. Deutermann My latest novel, The Last Paladin, out this month, is based on a true story of WWII. In this book, the USS Holland (DE-24), a World War II Atlantic Fleet destroyer escort, spends years in an … Read the article The post The Hedgehog in WWII appeared...
by Paul Craddock Thanks to dazzling advances in xenotransplantation and stem cell research, transplant surgery appears to be going through a new Renaissance. But where did transplants come from? We tend to put them into the same category as the … Read the article The...
by Joe Pappalardo On July 26, 1887, Sgt. James Brooks listens to the jury foreman declare a guilty verdict with a sinking feeling in his stomach. Today the Texas Ranger, standing in a courtroom in Fort Smith, Arkansas, is one … Read the article The post Learning the...
by Tom Clavin June 25th marks the anniversary of the Little Bighorn battle that resulted in the death of George Armstrong Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry command. The reason why this resonates with me—other than, of course, being … Read the article The post Crazy...
by Jefferson Morley I started out as a newspaper reporter, which led to investigative reporting, which led me to writing history. I think of my genre as investigative history, which seeks to combine the punch of a news story with … Read the article The post The...
by Tom Clavin Almost all history textbooks and most other sources tell us that the first week of June is the real anniversary of the end of the Civil War. When General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. … Read the article The post The War Had to Wait for...
by The History Reader As Father’s Day once again approaches, we’ve rounded up eight books sure to please any history-loving dad. Ranging from detailed accounts from the battlefields of WWII and the more recent history of the global war on … Read the article The post 9...