American Gas
Late in WWI the U.S. Army developed its own deadly chemical weapons, which still haunt a D.C. neighborhood
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Tidewater Wars, 1622
English settlers and Powhatan Indians fight for control in coastal Virginia
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Murmansk or Die
Blasting winds, vicious cold, driving sleet, treacherous ice, and relentless German attacks made the Arctic supply run to Soviet Russia the worst sea journey in the world
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Lessons of the Vendée
Peasants launch a bloody counterrevolution in one corner of France in 1793
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Why Germany’s Kriegsmarine Lost the Battle of the Atlantic
Without improvements in technological and tactical effectiveness, its U-boats were quite literally sunk
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Holding the Farm at Waterloo
In what author Brendan Simms rightly calls “an epic defence,” the 400-odd Hanoverian riflemen of the 2nd Light Battalion of the veteran King’s German Legion withstood French artillery barrages,...
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MHQ Author Wins AHF Distinguished Writing Award
Congratulations to Noah Andre Trudeau! Download his award-winning MHQ story, "An American Fandango in Monterrey"
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King William’s War: New England’s Mournful Decade
America's vicious border conflict with New France in the 1690s
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Portfolio: Gene Basset’s Vietnam Sketchbook
IN 1965 GENE BASSET shipped out for Vietnam, not as yet another American GI but as a political cartoonist for the Scripps Howard News Service. But like a GI, Basset found out what it meant to come...
View ArticleRogers’ Rangers Ice Capade
The famous forerunners of American special-ops forces battle the French in 1758.
View ArticleHow Nixon Almost Won the Vietnam War
The 1972 Battle of An Loc proved that the United States had found the key to victory.
View ArticleThe Spanish Road to the Netherlands
MHQ contributing editor Geoffrey Parker receives Heineken Prize for History on September 27
View ArticleThe History of Torture
Some 150 years ago, the West all but abandoned torture. But it’s back—witness the new film Zero Dark Thirty
View ArticleA Good Plan Gone Wrong
Robert Sneden maps the Battle of Chancellorsville, a Union debacle and Robert E. Lee's greatest victory
View ArticleA Bridge of Ships
World War I’s massive transport of men and materiel turned the ocean into a highway
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