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The Earps Invade Southern California
The Earps Invade Southern California: Bootlegging Los Angeles, Santa Monica and the Old Soldiers’ Home, by Don Chaput and David D. de Haas, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2020, $24.95
While the 1950s TV Western The…
The True History of the Confederate Flag
If you are a regular reader of Civil War Times, the Confederate battle flag is a familiar part of your world. The symbolism of the flag is simple and straightforward: It represents the Confederate side in the war that you…
‘Never Forget’ Rose Created for Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial
A century after its white roses were placed on the casket of first Unknown Soldier in 1921, a French family rose grower has created a “Never Forget” variety to mark the upcoming centennial of Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb…
Book Review: Seven Days in Hell
Seven Days in Hell: Canada’s Battle for Normandy and the Rise of the Black Watch Snipers, by David O’Keefe, Harper Perennial, Toronto, 2019, $29.99
During World War II Canada’s 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland…
Why Bombs Blew Up On Fighters in the Vietnam War
When bombs began exploding prematurely over Vietnam, killing aircrews, the cause was traced to faulty fuzes, but more would die before a solution was found.
The problem of aircrews being killed by premature bomb detonation…
James Baldwin’s Challenge to America: Not Your Negro and Not Willing to Settle
The esteemed 20th century writer demanded that White society accept its culpability in the betrayal of Black people
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The Edict of Thessalonica | History Today
Emperor Constantine the Great authorised Christianity across the Roman Empire in 313, but it was Theodosius I, half a century later, who put the brute force of the imperial state behind the faith.
Policy had vacillated through the fourth…
Zombies, Cannibals and Werewolves | History Today
Over the centuries, claims of cannibalism have been used repeatedly to justify slavery and imperialism. Indigenous Americans and enslaved Africans, it was said, were uncivilised and un-Christian people, whose savagery could be curbed…
World War II Female Spitfire Pilot Dies at 103
Eleanor Wadsworth, one of the last surviving female pilots of World War II, died in December following an illness, the BBC reported.
Wadsworth was born in Nottingham and joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1943 at age…
New National Museum of the U.S. Army Opens at Virginia’s Fort Belvoir
After two decades of planning, fundraising, and construction, the National Museum of the United States Armyopened on November 11, 2020, at Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia. The museum, a cooperative project of the Army…