HISTORY
Iraq War Veterans Refuse To Be Defined By A War They Didn’t Lose
On Sept. 4, 2006, Patrick Murray’s Humvee rolled over a roadside bomb in Fallujah, Iraq, while he was serving with...
How Highways Helped the Ancient Persians Become the World’s First Superpower
Everyone, it seems, is familiar with highways constructed by the ancient Romans. Those elegant, stone-paved roads pop up as supporting...
This Cigarette Lighter has a Tragic Origin Story
French-born Gervais Raoul Lufbery (who makes an appearance in Aviation History‘s feature about the Nieuport 28 ) lived a peripatetic...
CHM Resources on Lucy Parsons, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Jane Addams
In 1987, Congress officially designated March as Women’s History Month to commemorate, learn about, and reflect on women who have...
This Polish Monoplane Wasn’t as Bad as You Might Think
For a brief window in the 1930s, Poland’s PZL P.11 monoplane was considered the most advanced fighter in the world....
When the Soviets Needed a Submarine, They Turned to the Germans
When the Soviet Union began to build up and modernize its military in the early 1930s, it turned to a...
How the 8th Vermont Defied the Odds at Cedar Creek
Squire E. Howard awoke before dawn on October 19, 1864, to what he thought was thunder. The clamor, though, wasn’t...
How a Young Jewish Immigrant Widow Launched a Ranching Dynasty in New Mexico Territory
In a discussion of life on the Western frontier relatively few women pop to mind. Even the well-known phrase “Go...
How a Boer Hunter Tracked an Elusive German Cruiser
In the 1976 war film Shout at the Devil, based on the best-selling 1968 novel by Wilbur Smith and starring...
Death by Dentures? John McCain Sr.’s WWII Battles With Teeth, Toilets
John Sidney “Slew” McCain defied the image of the senior naval officer. Bony, wizened, with a hooked nose and sunken...
