Pennsylvania-class Battleships
A story of heavy guns, armored decks, and crews who learned to fight an early-twentieth-century battleship through a very different kind of war.
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Peter J. Dalessandro
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Battle of the Bulge.
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Jumping forward to the American Civil War, September 22nd, 1862, marked a profound shift in the Union’s war aims when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
President William McKinley shot in Buffalo
At a public reception in Buffalo, New York, President McKinley was shot by an assassin, suffering wounds that would prove fatal days later.
RC-135 Rivet Joint
A story of reach, listening power, and adaptation told through the crews who rode a jetliner-turned-spyplane into Iraq’s most dangerous airspace.
Relief of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge
In the bitter winter of 1944, the Belgian town of Bastogne became a focal point of the last major German offensive in the West.
Return to the Philippines at Leyte
Two years later, American forces carried that growing momentum back to the Philippines.
Richard E. Cowan
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
Richard Eller Cowan
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
Robert M. Viale
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and courage in World War II’s Pacific campaign.
Roosevelt’s Navy Day address
In the autumn before formal American entry into the Second World War, United States warships were already escorting convoys and trading shots with German submarines in the North Atlantic.
Salerno landings and the Italian armistice
In early September 1943, the strategic picture in the Mediterranean shifted rapidly.
Sand Creek Massacre
On the High Plains of the Colorado Territory, a column of Colorado volunteer cavalry descended on a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment along Sand Creek.
Second Battle of Sabine Pass
Along the Gulf Coast, Union planners sought to open a route into Texas by sending a naval expedition and troop transports toward Sabine Pass at the border with Louisiana.
Second Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights)
One year after Valcour Island, American forces under General Horatio Gates and field leaders like Benedict Arnold clashed with General John Burgoyne’s army near Bemis Heights, south of Saratoga.
Second Bull Run, heavy Union assaults
On August 29th, 1862, Union forces under Major General John Pope hurled repeated attacks against Confederate positions near an unfinished railroad grade outside Manassas, Virginia.
Selective Training and Service Act signed into law
As war raged overseas but before the United States formally entered the Second World War, political leaders grappled with how to prepare a peacetime democracy for potential conflict.
Seoul recaptured in Korean War
Finally, on September 28th, 1950, United Nations forces led by General Douglas MacArthur, alongside South Korean troops, completed the recapture of Seoul during the Korean War.