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Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2016 Teacher of the Year: Phil Caskey Recently, the American Battlefield Trust had a conversation with Phil Caskey, a teacher at...	Rev War John Stark’s Northern Victory By: Adam E. Zielinski The British strategy for winning the war at the outset of the rebellion in...	A Numerical Sketch of the War of 1812 The War of 1812 wasn’t just a war of conflicting interests — it was a clash of worldviews and...	Rev War The Battle of Blue Licks Despite the capitulation of Lord Charles Cornwallis’s British army to Gen. George Washington at...
Civil War Under a Deadly Sun at Cedar Mountain What would it take to move Stonewall Jackson, who never shied from a fight, to draw his sword in...	War of 1812 Controlling the Waterways at Sackets Harbor One year into the conflict known as the War of 1812, both American and British forces were keen to...	10 Facts: The United States Military Academy at West Point Fact #1: West Point is the oldest continuously operated Army post in the United States. American...	The War that Sparked a Sports Rivalry Few rivalries in sports are as heated and heralded as the rivalry between Ohio State and Michigan...
George Washington’s Rise to Rebellion G eorge Washington did not start out as the towering figure of American history that he eventually...	Rev War Preservation in the Woods: Restoring the Longleaf Pine to the Camden Battlefield At the Camden battlefield — site of a criticial battle of the Southern Campaigns of the American...	Rev War In the Heat of the Moment at Monmouth June 1778: The Continentals had an extraordinary opportunity as the British Army withdrew from...	Brands of the Civil War Sure, you know that household names like DuPont, American Express and Brooks Brothers have been...
Great Tasks, Great Crusades: D-Day and the Shadows of the Civil War Historian Jared Frederick on the long shadows that the Civil War casts into the 20th century,...	Thinking of Dad on Memorial Day I think about my father a lot in this job. He was a WWII veteran and a part of the Greatest...	Interview with Amy Bracewell & Stephen Humphreys The Trust spoke with Dr. Stephen Humphreys, CEO at American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR...	Six Idealists Who Came to America to Fight for Freedom Even before American independence, some individuals were drawn across the Atlantic and onto the...