‘Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’ may have been terrible, but at least we have this X-wing
The X-wing is on display May 5.
By Sarah Sicard
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Inside the hunt for Eagle 56
Like many really good sea stories, naval historian Paul Lawton’s begins with shots of 100 proof whiskey chased down by bottles of Budweiser.
By J.D. Simkins
Op-ed: How video games can bring history back to life
This is Gaminiscing 101, your introduction to how the tools of video games can be used to share personal history.
By Bob De Schutter, Miami University
The Navy’s Ex Ex and a legacy of military naturalists
On Aug. 18, 1838, the Exploring Expedition led by Navy Lt. Charles Wilkes embarked on a world cruise of scientific discovery. He fit well into a class of armed scientists, military naturalists who rose to prominence in the 18th and 19th centuries.
By Richard Conniff, HistoryNet
Apollo 11′s ‘amiable strangers’ Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins
Apollo 11's astronauts had six months to gel as a crew and prepare for humanity's greatest space feat. The three had never served together on the same spaceflight before, and the busy preparation left little if any time for bonding.
Thank the Navy and Coast Guard for first transatlantic flight
One hundred years ago, in the early morning hours of May 9, 1919, a watchstander at the Orleans Lifesaving Station saw something he’d never seen before.
By Doug Fraser, Cape Cod Times