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Warfare

The Gallipoli Campaign

By early 1915, the First World War had already become something far more grinding than many leaders had expected. On…

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Biographies

Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson was born into a world where the sea was not a barrier, but a road. To the Norse…

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Warfare

The Battle of Gettysburg

By the summer of 1863, the American Civil War had become a test of endurance as much as strategy. The…

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Disasters

The Port Chicago Explosion

By the summer of 1944, the United States was deep into the Second World War, and the demand for ammunition…

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Warfare

The Battle of Goose Green

By late May 1982, the Falklands War had moved from political shock and naval drama into the cold, muddy reality…

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Murder

The Assassination of James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield was born on 19 November 1831 in Orange Township, Ohio, into circumstances that gave little hint he…

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Biographies

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2 July 1908, into a Black family that valued education, discipline and…

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Warfare

The Battle of Yorktown

By 1781, the American War of Independence had dragged on for six exhausting years. The early drama of Lexington, Concord,…

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History

The History of Prisons

For much of human history, imprisonment was not the main punishment for crime. In the ancient world, societies were often…

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Warfare

The Battle of Britain

By the summer of 1940, Britain faced one of the darkest moments in its history. In less than a year,…

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