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Behind the Lines: Iraq’s Queen Mother

Unlikely nation-maker Gertrude Bell redrew the map of the Middle East

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Behind the Lines: From Separate and Unequal to Shipmates

The U.S. Navy’s surprise steps toward desegregation in World War II

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MHQ Behind the Lines: Building Faux Paris

In World War I, the French Ministry of War built a massive decoy city to fool German airmen

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Korean ‘Comfort Women’: Japan’s World War II Sex Slaves

Japan forced tens of thousands of Korean women to be sex slaves in World War II

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Behind the Lines: Olmsted at War

During the Civil War, Frederick Law Olmsted left landscape design behind to help create the U.S. Sanitary Commission

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Dignity in Defeat: Mathew Brady’s Photos of Robert E. Lee

Why Robert E. Lee sat for photographer Mathew Brady so soon after Appomattox

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Behind the Lines | Antwerp, 1914

Britain goes to war—but where?   WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE ENGLISH CHANNEL and whoever controlled the Channel threatened the maritime perimeter of the British Isles. That was the center of gravity in the...

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