War Correspondent Ernie Pyle (1900 – 1945) earned his fame by writing about the American Army in North Africa, Italy and France. In April of 1945 he was embedded with the Marines when they invaded Okinawa. To his surprise, sharing foxholes with Marines in Asia was no different from sharing foxholes with GIs in Europe.
“The New York Herald Tribune thinks the New York Stock Exchange is partly to blame for the panicky selling of the worst days, because the inadequacy of its present ticker service kept shareholders so long in ignorance of the course of prices.”
Attached is a printable chronology of the events leading up to the American Civil War: One month after Lincoln was
Here is a printable chronology of the important events that occurred during 1864, the most decisive year of the American Civil War.
Here is a printable chronology of the important events that occurred during 1865, the last year of the American Civil War:
On the fiftieth anniversary of the War Between the States, retired U.S Army General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828 – 1914) wrote about his experiences at the Battle of Little Round Top for the editors at Hearst’s Magazine.
Few Americans realize the deep concern which the Army exercises to determine the exact status of a man reported missing in action, and even fewer are aware of the many complexities that beset the endeavor to track down missing [personnel]… It may be observed, incidentally, that the men reported as ‘missing in action’ has a two-out-of-three chance of being alive, and of turning up eventually.
The red scribe who penned this article had no idea that the clock was ticking when it came to the USSR (it collapsed some twenty-three years later) and that the name Soviet Union would soon serve as the answer for assorted parlor games such as Trivial Pursuit. Nonetheless, the writer’s misplaced pride came bubbling forth in this column that celebrated their 50th year in existence.
Although this journalist couldn’t know it, she was writing one of the last corset reviews in fashion history. No doubt,
Not surprisingly, the British magazine Spectator printed a terribly dry and unsympathetic review of My Memoirs by Kaiser Willhelm II
Leo Thomas Crowley (1889 – 1972) was a senior administrator for FDR as the head of the Foreign Economic Administration, and in this Newsweek editorial it recalls a time late in the war when he let-loose some steam having felt that the British and Americans were not getting enough credit for building up the strength of Stalin’s military.
There were many different new types of personnel the U.S. military had to train and deploy if they were to
When this article appeared in print the war in Europe had been over for three and a half months. Nonetheless,
