We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence of the epic poems. The revolt against it
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Sky Is My Witness, by Capt. Thomas Moore, Jr., U.S.M.C.R. (published 1943). Midway Island! One and a half square miles of it. One and
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Heroes of England, by J. G. Edgar (published 1910). In the early part of the eighteenth century, there lived near Market Drayton, in Shropshire, a
Editor’s note: The following article by S.Sgt. Bob Speer is extracted from Brief, a magazine published for Army Air Force personnel serving in the Pacific Theater (July 24, 1945). No one will
By the early Nineteenth Century, the British Navy was the unquestioned leader on the seas. No other nation, or group of nations, was able to compete with their naval supremacy. “For almost
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Poems of English Heroism (published 1882). YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND by Thomas Campbell Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas! Whose flag has
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from One Damned Island After Another, by Clive Howard and Joe Whitley (published 1946). There were no famous pilots and no famous airplanes in the Seventh
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Serenade to the Big Bird, by Bert Stiles (published 1952). Assigned as a co-pilot to the 401st Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group at Bassingbourn, England,
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