World War 2 remains notorious for the frequency of bombs used during the conflict. Bombs, conventional and atomic, blasted places like Hiroshima, London, Tokyo, and many cities in Germany. Because of the horror and scale of the damage, these places overshadow, to some extent, what happened in the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26 […]
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The Brownsville Affair & the 25th Infantry
If you’ve read my book The Buffalo Soldier, (click here to check it out!) you may remember it includes the 25th Infantry Regiment of the US Army. They were stationed at Fort Missoula in Montana in 1896. The 25th was also among the first of the short-lived bicycle regiments in the US Army. The same […]
Manifest Destiny & the Red River of Manitoba – 1 of 3
This is part one of a three-part series on how half of Canada nearly joined the United States in 1869. That year, one of the most underappreciated but vastly important events in the history of North America took place in today’s Canadian province of Manitoba. Because of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, the fate of […]
Enrico Fermi Sustains a Nuclear Reaction
December 2 of 1942 was a critical day in the history of the twentieth century. On that day, Italian scientist Enrico Fermi, working under the stands of Stagg Field in Chicago, achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction in history. In an event fraught with meaning for the future safety of life on earth, Fermi created […]
Major Vietnam War Protests Begin
October 15 and 16 of 1965 saw some of the first major Vietnam War Protests in the United States. These began, perhaps predictably, in Berkeley, California, where about 10,000 protestors marched to the military base in Oakland. Similar protests took place on 5th Avenue in New York City, in Philadelphia, in Boston, and in Ann […]
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