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Night after night this summer, members of the Army’s historic Old Guard have slipped into Arlington National Cemetery in T-shirts and flip-flops to photograph each and every grave. Published August 28, 2011 Comments
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Booming cannons, plaintive period music and hushed crowds ushered in the 150th anniversary of America’s bloodiest war on Tuesday, a commemoration that continues to underscore a racial divide that had plagued the nation since before the Civil War. Published April 12, 2011 Comments
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To coincide with the 150th anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War, the Georgia Historical Society unveiled a historical marker Friday summing up the history of “40 acres” outside the cotton merchant’s mansion that served as Gen. William T. Sherman’s headquarters toward the end of the war. Published March 6, 2011 Comments
By JoAnn Loviglio - Associated Press
The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero’s welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle. Published September 6, 2010 Comments
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A decade after the raising of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley off the South Carolina coast, the cause of the sinking of the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship remains a mystery. But scientists are edging closer. Published August 8, 2010 Comments
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Warfare, like many aspects of human activity, has evolved in response to society's moral and technological advancements. Published December 24, 2009
By Greg Pierce
Washington is surrounded by Civil War battlefields, but what history buffs hereabouts may not realize is that we also live within easy reach of many sites from the French and Indian War. Published December 24, 2009
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Homebuilder Thomas Fischer won a fundraiser auction for the right to don period garb and take a seat in the annual re-enactment of George Washington's 1776 boat crossing of the Delaware River. Published December 23, 2009
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President Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering governmentwide changes that could sharply curb the number of new and old government records hidden from the public. Published December 21, 2009
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Plagued with economic ruin, psychological terror and personal tragedy at the end of the Civil War, many Southerners began to dis- Published December 17, 2009
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Hi Ms. Vicki, I hope you can help me with my dilemma. I'm married to a woman who brought two children into the marriage. I love her children with all of my heart. I have two children from a previous marriage and I am still very supportive of them in every way, but my new wife is resistant. Published December 17, 2009
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Writing on Feb. 15, 1911, from Washington, D.C., to his friend and protege George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce railed against the venality of bureaucrats. Published December 10, 2009
The Obama administration has launched a new effort to win ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, known as CTBT, which was voted down by the Senate in 1999. Published December 10, 2009
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Dozens of survivors of Pearl Harbor on Monday solemnly remembered those who died in the Japanese aerial assault 68 years ago as a top Navy commander said their bravery laid the foundation for the subsequent U.S. victory in World War II. Published December 8, 2009
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Ed Johann will always remember the sound of planes diving out of the sky to bomb U.S. battleships, the explosions and the screams of sailors. He still recalls the stench of burning oil and flesh. Published December 7, 2009
The Obama administration is continuing to delay its response to Taiwan's request to buy an additional 66 F-16 jet fighters. Published December 3, 2009
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''The Union pickets didn't know what to think of soldiers fighting as naked as jaybirds," Confederate Lt. Bennett H. Young wrote in an unusual report to his superiors about a skirmish between Union and Confederate forces on the Cumberland River in western Kentucky on July 2, 1863. Published December 3, 2009
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A recent trip to Biloxi, Miss., permits one to happily report that Jefferson Davis' home, Beauvoir, has returned to its former self after suffering severe damage from Hurricane Katrina three years ago. Published December 3, 2009
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One of the nation's oldest Medal of Honor winners is fighting again, now with a Virginia neighborhood association that wants him to take down his front-yard flagpole. Published December 3, 2009
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There are 30 of them, with names such as Adler, Cohen, Hessberg, Wolf and Seldner. All of them were Jewish soldiers, and Civil War casualties. Published November 26, 2009
