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Ted WilliamsI have an interesting postscript to John Miles’ article on the famous ballplayer [“The Thumper’ Goes to War”]. As a boy I would watch Ted Williams in awe when … Read More

A Union officer’s heroism at Shepherdstown awed both friend and foe As the soldiers of the rookie 118th Pennsylvania Infantry waited on the Virginia bank of the Potomac River for … Read More

Before jets sported swing wings, an early Russian designer took a novel approach to variable-geometry wingspans in a series of French-built airplanes. The notion of altering the geometry of an … Read More

The Real Dirt on America’s Frontier Legends, by Jim Motavalli, Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah, 2019, $24.99 In this entertaining book Jim Motavalli profiles 17 frontier legends, the majority of whom … Read More

Shotgun MessengerThere was a mistake on P. 73 of Matthew Bernstein’s “Murder in the Black Hills,” in the December 2018 issue. The treasure coach from Deadwood to Cheyenne and Sidney … Read More

A new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis distills 60 years of official and secret narratives about the world’s scariest moment Besides enjoying a galloping great read steeped in historiographical … Read More

We’ve all been there. A long week at work leads to blowing off some steam on a Friday night — which almost certainly leads to blowing some money. When you awake … Read More

The artist at work in his studio Silver Reef, Utah. Minutes north of St. George, Utah, off I-15 rests Silver Reef, a ghost of a mining town nestled among red … Read More

Engineer Railway Detachment 96446A braved blizzards and treacherous terrain while moving vital war materiel inland.  MOTHER NATURE stormed in at 50 degrees below zero, overwhelming the forces of Engineer Railway Detachment … Read More