Military History
From the Archives: Cornelia Fort, Eyewitness to Pearl Harbor
In 1941, Cornelia Fort was a certified civilian flight instructor who worked for the Andrews Flying Service in Honolulu, a Nashville debutante who had kicked her way into the male dominated world of general aviation. (1) She was only 22 and already an experienced pilot with hundreds of flight hours to her credit. On December…
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Road Trip Through History: The Genoa National Fish Hatchery and the Black Hawk War
Here’s what I knew about the Black Hawk War at the beginning of our most recent travels along the Great River Road: it was a small scale war between Native American tribes and American settlers in the upper Midwest prior to the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln fought in it as a member of the…
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Sudden Courage
A little less than a year ago, I posted a review of Paige Bower’s The General’s Niece, a fascinating biography of Genevieve De Gaulle and the role she played in the French resistance I recently read an excellent book that put Genevieve in the broader context of teenage resistants. In Sudden Courage: Youth in France…
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