Tag: History

Shortly before D-Day, Gen. George Patton (pictured left) fully expected that brutal combat waited just over the horizon. And so, just before landing time, Patton addressed his soldiers and told them to prepare to annihilate the enemy. (AP Photo)

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73 years ago today, George Patton was annihilating the Nazi war machine

Tom Rogan · August 16, 2017 4:53 pm

President Trump was wrong not to condemn neo-Nazis on Saturday. But he is right to condemn the statue fanatics. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Trump is right to warn about George Washington and the statue fanatics

Tom Rogan · August 15, 2017 10:42 pm

Trump asked reporters during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York City. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump: Are statues of slave owners George Washington and Thomas Jefferson coming down next?

Melissa Quinn · August 15, 2017 8:51 pm

How did the scientists try to document an eclipse? Black and white photography just couldn't capture the breathtaking moment when the sun's corona appeared. Color photography was still largely experimental and grossly expensive too. So, they invited Howard Russell Butler to memorialize the moment in oil. (Howard Russell Butler via Wikimedia Commons)

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Documenting a solar eclipse, 1918 style

J. Mark Powell · August 15, 2017 7:54 pm

Go West, Young Man

The Scrapbook · August 11, 2017 6:20 am

David Benioff, left, and D.B Weiss accept the award for outstanding writing for a drama series for "Game of Thrones" at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Benioff and Weiss are planning a new show, "Confederate," that has sparked controversy. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)

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On censorship of ‘Confederate,’ it’s ‘Satanic Verses’ deja vu

Michael Rubin · August 3, 2017 7:12 pm

Rice University history professor and CNN analyst Douglas Brinkley said a week of White House personnel controversies proved the Trump administration was "in utter disarray". (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

History professor says Trump is ‘unfit for command’

Naomi Lim · July 30, 2017 7:44 pm

This is the story of the Peshtigo Fire. (AP Photo/Raphael Poletti)

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You’ve probably never heard of the deadliest wildfire in US history

J. Mark Powell · July 26, 2017 2:06 am

On This Date

TWS Podcast · July 24, 2017 8:27 pm

JFK.

CIA, FBI release new material on Kennedy assassination investigation

Sean Langille · July 24, 2017 6:32 pm

As much as the finest books on war, "Dunkirk" offers a sense of combat's fear, confusion, anger, and heroism. (Image courtesy screenshot)

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‘Dunkirk’ is an excellent film, but here are two things it missed

Tom Rogan · July 24, 2017 1:51 pm

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All that disunion over HBO’s ‘Confederate’ is stupid

Philip Wegmann · July 20, 2017 5:20 pm