Month: May 2026

• The Kansas Pacific Railway and the Struggle to Become a Transcontinental Line

  

  Image: Engineer camp at the Zuni Pass, in the Sierra Madre, N.M., 975 miles west of Missouri River. The Kansas Pacific Railway and the Struggle to Become a Transcontinental Line In the decade after the American Civil War, few ambitions loomed larger in the imagination of railroad promoters than the dream of a second transcontinental…

  May 29, 2026

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• Canada At War 1916

  

  Image: Bringing in a wounded Canadian on a light railcar from the Battle of Courcelette, Sept. 1916. Note the Canadian soldier sheltering partially under the rail tracks. It certainly seems an odd place to be considering that there is no fighting near his space. Quite possibly he could be suffering from “Shell Shock.” #BattleofCourcelette https://amzn.to/4vrMHuz…

  May 26, 2026

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• Silent Epic of the High Seas: The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands in History and Film

  

  May 8, 2026

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