The Army Historical Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards. The 2021 awards honor books and articles published in 2021.
General Granger’s reading of General Orders No.3 in Galveston, Texas on 19 June 1865 symbolized what was gained after five long years of war.
By James Stejskal NOTE: This article contains excerpts from contemporary official Union and Confederate reports that include racial epithets. Additional eyewitness accounts employ local “dialect” that may or may not have been accurately rendered by the recorder. It was dark as three Union Army steamboats left St. Helena Sound off the coast of South Carolina …
The Jayhawker and the Conductor: The Combahee Ferry Raid, 2 June 1863 Read More »
Albert Clinton Johnson – the man who would become the first African American colonel in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
The Army Historical Foundation featured their second in a series of free virtual programs focused on the experiences of the American Soldier.
The American Soldier: Chinese American Veterans of World War II Presented by The Army Historical Foundation
The Global War Gallery will tell the story of the Army’s operations around the globe during World War II. Occupying 6,500 square feet, it will be the largest within the Fighting for the Nation Galleries. The gallery’s main focus begins in 1941, running through the end of the war, and explores how over eight million …
By Matthew J. Seelinger During World War II, thousands of Japanese-American soldiers proudly served in the U.S. Army. These men, known as Nisei (second generation Japanese born in the United States), did so despite the internment of many Japanese-Americans due to their ethnic background. Once given the opportunity to serve, many men enthusiastically volunteered for …
Written By: MAJ Glenn T. Williams, AUS-Ret. In 1778 the Continental Congress authorized funds and instructed General George Washington to send an expedition of the Continental Army into Iroquois country to “chastise,” or punish, “those of the Six Nations that were hostile to the United Stated.” For more than two years, four of the Iroquois …
The Battle of Newtown, August 29, 1779: An Aggressive Attack Carried Out With Audacity Read More »
Written By: Patrick Feng Since the end of World War II, there has been a significant amount of literature on the Manhattan Project. The effort to develop the atomic bomb led to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hastening the end of the war against Japan. Relatively little, however, has been written on the key …
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