National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Reviewing the best military history exhibitions with Christopher Warner.
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‘Captured but not conquered’ at the National WWI Museum and Memorial
Calum Henderson explores how a new exhibition at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Missouri is illuminating the experiences of prisoners of war.
Review: The Museum of Flight
Open 10am-5pm (closed Christmas and Thanksgiving)9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, WA 98108-4097www.museumofflight.org+1 206 764 5700 Long before the advent of computer-generated imagery, better known as CGI, filmmakers relied on actual planes to recreate the thrills and dangers of aerial…
Location of Revolutionary War prison camp finally identified
The camp housed hundreds of English, Scottish, and Canadian privates and non-commissioned officers during the Revolutionary War of 1775-1783.
Classical currents: Antiquity and America
The presence of ancient Greece and Rome can be felt in many places in the early history of the United States of America. Lucia Marchini speaks to Sean Burrus and Emilie Johnson to find out how Americans like Thomas Jefferson were putting antiquity to use as a new nation was forged.
Cuban Missile Crisis: how one man saved the world from nuclear war
John Lock resumes his occasional series on the ‘Butterfly Effect’ by examining another event that might have had unforeseen consequences. This time, he turns his attention to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the dramatic Cold War stand-off that led the world to the brink of disaster.
Nuclear Folly: a new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis
A crisis over a small island south of the mainland United States in the autumn of 1962 was the closest the world ever came to a devastating nuclear war. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy, who recently chronicled the 1986 Chernobyl disaster,…
Chancellorsville, 1863: A case of nerves, the moon, and mistaken identity
John Lock looks at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 in the first of a series of articles looking at the Butterfly Effect – where small incidents have significant consequences.
Disney goes to war
More than 90% of the Disney company’s wartime output was dedicated to assisting in the struggle against Japan, Nazi Germany, and their allies.
War comes to Kansas: ‘Vengeance is in my heart, and death in my hand’
Atrocities were mercifully few in America’s most bloody war. But the exceptions were grim. Frederick Chiaventone recalls the Lawrence Massacre.