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17 Books Every Service Member Should Read, According to Troops and Veterans

We surveyed U.S. troops and veterans for the best books that every active-duty service member should read.

On this day in history, February 24, 1914, Joshua L. Chamberlain dies, college professor turned Civil War hero

Brig. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a Bowdoin College professor who became one of the great heroes of the Civil War, died on this day in history, Feb. 24, 1914.

Q&A with John Katzenbach

Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen Photos courtesy of John Katzenbach John Katzenbach’s career as a novelist began in 1982, with the publication of “In the Heat of the Summer”, an edgy crime novel that examined the cult of celebrity, fame and media ethics. This novel was filmed as “The Mean Sea

The Legend From Little Round Top

Telling History vs. Making Art: Killer Angels, real and fictional

Part five in a series. In my last post, I began to discuss Michael Shaara’s aesthetic choices for constructing The Killer Angels as he did, and how he adopted a Lost Cause-interpretation of Robert E. Lee as a central choice for his novel. Where Shaara deviates significantly from Lost Cause tradition, though, is his choice to make Confederate…