Long viewed as unjust and mercenary, the Mexican-American War allowed the U.S. to seize control of vast expanses of the Southwest, paved the way for t...

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For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...

The country duo Granville Automatic performs songs from An Army Without Music, a recording project in which each song is...

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Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the major figures in America’s Progressive movement in the early 20th century. But key to his influence was the support...

Built in 1942 in Johnson County, Kansas, the Sunflower Ordnance Works quickly became the world’s largest producer of rocket propellant, an essentia...