military history

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/15/19
  

  Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

  by George C. Herring

  There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/7/19
  

  Casimir Pulaski, Polish Hero of the Revolutionary War, Was Most Likely Intersex, Researchers Say

  Casimir Pulaski had male characteristics, like facial hair and male-pattern baldness, but his skeleton looked female. Researchers now believe he was intersex.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/20/19
  

  Boeing Brings 100 Years Of History To Its Fight To Restore Its Reputation

  Analysts expect Boeing to weather this storm. The company has certainly survived other rough patches in its century-long history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/21/19
  

  The first time the U.S. considered drafting women — 75 years ago

  by Pamela D. Toler

  As legislative debate about drafting women in 1945 shows, if the military need is great enough, women will be drafted no matter how uncomfortable lawmakers are with the prospect.

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• 3/17/19
  

  Why the U.S. Bombed Auschwitz, But Didn't Save the Jews

  by Rafael Medoff

  Seventy-five years ago this week—on March 19, 1944—German troops marched into Hungary. The country’s 800,000 Jews, the last major Jewish community to have eluded the raging Holocaust, now lay within Hitler’s grasp.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/13/19
  

  Lost World War 2 Aircraft Carrier Found After an Epic Search

  Sunk in 1942, a team of wreck hunters set out to find the U.S.S. Wasp. 

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Death of Appeasement: the 80th Anniversary of the Invasion of Prague

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  March 1939 was the real turning point in international relations. September 1939 was to be the climax.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/6/19
  

  The Women Whose Secret Work Helped Win World War II

  The first-hand stories of these trail-blazing women.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/4/19
  

  These women were denied veteran status for decades. Congress can’t overlook them again.

  by Elizabeth Cobbs

  Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) now propose to honor the women of the Signal Corps with the Congressional Gold Medal. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/4/19
  

  40 Years After The Vietnam War, Some Refugees Face Deportation Under Trump

  U.S. officials have been working behind the scenes to convince the Vietnamese government to repatriate more than 7,000 Vietnamese immigrants with criminal convictions.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/1/19
  

  The toxic legacy of the Korean War

  by Mary L. Dudziak

  The conflict upended the constitutional balance. It has been cited by presidents ever since.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/1/19
  

  Fierce, feared and female: The WWII pilots known as the ‘Night Witches’

  Their planes were rickety crop-dusters, but the Soviet women turned them into killing machines.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/28/19
  

  What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order?

  by Alfred W. McCoy

  A Wide-Ranging History Explaining How Climate Change Could End Washington’s Global Dominion

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/22/19
  

  These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell

  Miller created deeply empathetic images with a understated, yet unmistakable anti-racist intent.

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• SOURCE: Science Daily
  2/27/19
  

  Facial recognition software to identify Civil War soldiers

  Photo Sleuth may help uncover the mysteries of nearly 4 million photographs of Civil War-era images.

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• 3/3/19
  

  Battlefield Tourism At Ypres and How Public History Sites Change

  by Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel

  Modern Ypres or Ieper is a world forged and shaped in the furnace of a conflict that ended one hundred years ago this November. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/26/19
  

  Not Every Woman Who Served With the U.S. Military During World War I Got the Same Treatment. Here’s Why

  By the time the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, two thousand women had enlisted as “Yeoman (F).”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/15/19
  

  The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers’

  by Colbert I. King

  Like dreamers of today, those black soldiers and sailors also had families and attended churches; some were enrolled in schools. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/19/19
  

  New Interactive Tool Maps the American War on Terror

  by Stephanie Savell

  In general, the American public has largely ignored these post-9/11 wars and their costs. But the vastness of Washington’s counterterror activities suggests, now more than ever, that it’s time to pay attention.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/14/19
  

  Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted)

  by Tom Engelhardt

  An Obituary for the Republic