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A Continental Army Officer's Intemperate Remarks Lead to Duplicity and Duels in the Conway Cabal

Semicircular mural of Revolutionary War officers in winter, with soldiers resting nearby and tents in the snowy background.

April - June 2026, Issue 5

Students of American history are likely familiar with the conditions at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania during the winter of 1777-1778: shoeless soldiers leaving bloody tracks in the snow; rampant hunger and cold; the Continental Army's austere encampment..

A Building Twice-struck by Lightning OR, Dictatorship Despoiled! George Washington Consecrates the “Temple of Virtue” with his 1783 Newburgh Address

Illustrated map titled “An Original View of the Encampment of the Massachusetts Soldiers.” A large central building labeled “Temple of Virtue” sits among trees, with small buildings and tent rows arranged in neat grids below. Decorative symbols, including a compass rose and fleur-de-lis, appear at the edges.

January - March 2026, Issue 4

What is the "Temple of Virtue," anyway? Something lost to Ancient Greece or Rome? Superman's second home when he isn't hanging out in the Fortress of Solitude? How about a Colonial-era structure intended for religious services near the Hudson River..

Trial by Fire: Josephine Clifford McCrackin Survives Personal Disaster in New Mexico Territory and California to Become "The Savior of the Sequoias"

California, Big Basin Redwood State Park - Sequoia sempervirens. September 1972. NARA

July - September 2025, Issue 3

A failed marriage and a wildfire led to the creation in 1902 of Big Basin Redwoods, California's oldest state park. Big Basin contains the largest continuous stand of coast redwoods south of San Francisco, featuring trees hundreds of feet tall and..

Much Ado about the "Doolittle Report"

April - June 2025, Issue 2

The Replies of Brigadier General James H. Carleton to Questions Posed by the Joint Special Committee of the Two Houses of Congress Directing an Inquiry into the Condition of the Indian Tribes and their Treatment by the Civil and Military Authorities..

"…a crazed negro, a hysterical girl and a yellow journal reporter." The Tulsa Massacre of 1921

January - March 2025, Issue 1

On September 30, 2024, The New York Times reported that the Cold Case Unit of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is conducting a review of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The purpose of the review according to Kristen Clarke..

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