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A Secret Agent’s Pride
by John Lisle The Dirty Tricks Department by John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch and its role in World War II. Their inventions...
To the Shores of Tripoli
by Tom Clavin When one thinks of America’s early naval heroes, John Paul Jones and Oliver Hazard Perry usually come to mind. But another was Stephen Decatur, who achieved not...
Flying Into Hell
During WWII, Frank Murphy flew twenty-one daylight combat missions with the Mighty Eighth. The odds of returning safely were three to one against. Below is an excerpt from his...
On âMobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restrictionâ
In the September 2022 special issue of the Journal of American History, Kevin Kennyâs article, âMobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration...
Africatown and the Last Slave Ship
by Nick Tabor Nick Tabor’s Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and...
A Connecticut Yankee In Texas
by Tom Clavin This year is the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers, who played a significant role in the bigger picture of what in the 1800s was viewed as law and order on the...
“One Can Sense a New Wave of Pro-life Activism Coming from College Campuses”: Anti-Abortion “Rescues” and Youth Activism in the 1990s Midwest
An anti-abortion activist smashes a pro-choice poster at a rally on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The January 20, 1993 rally was in commemoration of the 20th...