Tag: Cold War History
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The Forgotten Battle That Helped Launch America’s Navy
Reading Time: 5 minutesMost Americans know the stories of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown. Few have ever heard of the Battle of Machias. Yet in June 1775, just weeks after the American Revolution began, a group of frontier settlers in what is now Maine captured the British armed schooner Margaretta in what…
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Last Week in History: June 8–14 | Wars, Tech & Legacy
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe second week of June has produced some of history’s most influential moments, from the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the dedication of the UNIVAC I, one of the world’s first commercial computers. Between June 8 and June 14, wars began and ended, civil rights battles reached turning points, and…