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The HistoryNet Podcast features some of the greatest stories from HistoryNet.com's archive of over 25,000+ features. From ancient Rome to the Middle Ages, from the 18th century to the edge of recent memory, we zero in on the people and events that made the world what it is today. Vividly written by expert authors, thoroughly edited and fact-checked by magazine professionals, these stories bring history to vibrant life.
The narrators of this podcast, however, are not human beings but AI voices created by our partner, Instaread.co. Say what you will about AI, but in this case the voices are surprisingly real, capturing well the nuances of the articles they're reading aloud.
To read those stories in their original form, please go to historynet.com.
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This British Colonel Traveled with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg. He?d Already Had His Share of Surprises..mp3
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Nobody wanted the A-10 Warthog — now It's the military's most beloved plane
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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They were sent on a suicide mission at Cedar Creek. Their victory rallied the Union.
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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They say he burned down the Reichstag. But was he drugged into confessing?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Kars fortress stands as a monument to a turbulent past
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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This journalist risked his life to reveal the horrors of lynching in the South
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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John Fetterman isn't the first ill politician to serve. Here are examples from history
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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The death of Crazy Horse: Fables and forensics
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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The Ercoupe is easy to fly — but you better not be in a hurry
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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These Civil War warriors fought with the pen, and not the sword
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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The mysterious death of Johnny Ringo
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Minié ball: The Civil War bullet that changed history
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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What if the Marines had skipped Iwo Jima
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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This German baroness dodged cannonballs during the American Revolution
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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'Weary of So Much Suffering': Letters from the Sheridan Field Hospital
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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'Medicine Flower' Brought the West East
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Kidnapped during World War II, these German corpses proved a headache for the U.S. Army
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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This Supreme Court ruling on prayer in public schools made America go nuts
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Robert E. Lee endured a precipitous reset in Maryland
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Meet the man who sent the world's largest flying machine to its doom
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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One of this Western director's scenes looked so real that it provoked actual gunfire
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Zap! American railroads go electric
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Joe Hooker was an ineffectual general, but does he deserve credit for transforming the Union cavalry?
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Napoleon's imperial guard tells of his fight for the emperor
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Sharpshooter Billy Dixon owes his legacy to his widow
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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This German general made a deal with the devil
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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WWI American pilots wanted a great fighter plane. Instead, they got the Nieuport 28
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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One family, 10 sieges: How Spain's Guzman family spent centuries battling for Gibraltar
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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The Turkestan Incident
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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The Arikara War: avenging Americans
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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No, the London Blitz wasn't started by accident
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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When is a Mustang not a Mustang?
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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White Oaks, New Mexico: the onetime haunt of Billy the Kid
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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When a Vietnamese ally was wounded, two American soldiers had to choose obedience or compassion
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Nobody could scale the walls of China's Forbidden City except this American soldier
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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This British officer developed a revolutionary rifle whose worth he was never able to prove in battle
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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The last surviving widow of the Civil War
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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The old world soldier who conquered the new
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a great airplane until the propellers started falling off
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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The balloon pilots who went boldly where only animals had gone before
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Lewis and Clark's race against Spain
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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This 1945 New Guinea plane crash survivor became known as the Queen of Shangri-La
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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The bomber that almost wasn't
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Mexican War: The proving ground for future American Civil War generals
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Most POWs want to go home — but after World War II, some faced death on arrival
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Patsy Cline's final flight
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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One week before this pioneering aviator's tragic death, an American watched him work
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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The man behind Monty
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Marilyn Monroe's Death: Early victim of the opioid epidemic
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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The 100 greatest generals of all time
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The 20th Maine's Little Round Top hero had a hardscrabble life
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The suicide charge of two killer Cheyennes
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The man who saved Korea
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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The surprising story of Japan's B-17 fleet
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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The fighting for this Italian town was so brutal they called it the Stalingrad of the Adriatic
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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The top 10 one-eyed commanders of all-time
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Facing doom at the Battle of the Bulge, this tank commander wouldn't back down
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Pat Garrett was the last great frontier lawman — even without his Billy the Kid Fame
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Operation Highjump: 1946-47 Expedition to explore Antarctica from the air
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The MiG-25 terrified the West until a defector exposed its true nature
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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This Abilene marshal was almost beheaded on his way out of office
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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This famed director was used to saying 'action,' Now he would experience some for himself at Midway.
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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The truth about JFK and his PT Boat's collision with a Japanese destroyer in WWII
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Rejected! These famous people were turned down by the military. At least at first
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The US Army envisioned using dogs in the Pacific to sniff out enemy Japanese soldiers. Things did not work out as planned.
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Omar Bradley, the general's general
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The 9 greatest Supreme Court justices
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The real story behind 58 Confederate bodies tossed in a well
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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They saw the horrors of war: A nurse and 3 soldiers describe Shiloh and Corinth
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Requiem for a forgotten West Texas cow town
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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The day the world's best aviator killed Will Rogers (and himself)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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The South Vietnamese pilot who performed a daring feat to save his family
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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The deadliest Nazi POW massacre On US soil took place after WWII ended
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The sky seemed the limit for Union General Fitz John Porter. Then came Second Bull Run
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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The day Miss America almost got shot down over Vietnam
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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The Gloster Gladiator looked outdated when WWII started. It was.
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Penicillin: The wonder drug of World War II
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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The 'Hello Girls' arrived in Europe before the first Doughboys. Here's why they were so crucial
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Rediscovered photos offer a window into the Army Arctic past
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The men who followed Davy Crockett to the Alamo
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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The famed American aviatrix secretly on the Nazi payroll
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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The Christmas bombing of Hanoi: A great victory or an epic blunder?
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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The Beast turned loose in New Orleans
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Target Berlin: The first air-raid on the German capital
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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The History of Pie
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The Carpathian Winter War, 1915
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The Allies' billion-dollar secret: The proximity fuze of World War II
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The fight at Cedar Creek was over. So why couldn't Union troops let their guard down?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The 10 worst fighter planes of World War II
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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'The duty to respect is different than the duty to protect.': A return to Normandy
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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The American Civil War through the eyes of the French
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Smallpox blankets: myth or massacre?
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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A Soviet icebreaker spelled doom for Allied ships in the Pacific
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Riches and ruin on the high road to the Klondike Gold Rush
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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The Royal Navy diver who mysteriously vanished
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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A first-hand account of the 1863 New York City draft riots
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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The Gurkhas of Nepal are some of the world's toughest fighters
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Were U.S. pilots crash landing in Sweden on purpose?
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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The 3 feudal warlords who unified Japan
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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The sailor who fought at Pearl Harbor with his football pads on
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Fighting for survival in Oregon during the Civil War
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The WWII quest to save Norway's gold
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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A 34-day war over a patch of Amazonian Jungle
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Western lawman Bass Reeves, the invincible man-hunter
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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The Battle of Surigao Strait: the last battleship duel
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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The American socialite who saved thousands from the Nazis
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Dec 01, 2023 |