Lauren Coontz is a staff writer for Coffee or Die Magazine. Beaches are preferred, but Lauren calls the Rocky Mountains of Utah home. You can usually find her in an art museum, at an archaeology site, or checking out local nightlife like drag shows and cocktail bars (gin is key). A student of history, Lauren is an Army veteran who worked all over the world and loves to travel to see the old stuff the history books only give a sentence to. She likes medium roast coffee and sometimes, like a sinner, adds sweet cream to it.
President Woodrow Wilson established June 14 as national Flag Day in 1916, but it wasn’t made “official” by Congress until 1949. The American flag now flies across the globe and the stars on Mars, the moon, and US military bases and ships on all ...
The Battle of Belleau Wood raged through most of June 1918. From its opening shots on June 1 to Marines clearing the last German positions on June 26, the battle marked the largest fight in Marine Corps history to that point and the baptism by fire ...
Bob Lemke remembers the morning he realized Vietnam was lost. “The radar looked a little fuzzy only because there was so much activity on the water,” Lemke, then a lieutenant on the frigate USS Kirk, told Jan K. Herman in The Lucky Few. Gathered ...
The Pentagon is set to report to Congress later this month that decades of military investigation into UFOs have produced ... well ... not much. A reexamination of high-profile incidents between US jets and unidentified objects, the Pentagon said, ...
As the Allies began to plan the D-Day invasion of Europe, German spymasters were sure they had an inside line through their network of agents to British and Allied battle plans. What the Nazis didn't know was several of their key spies actually ...
The walls were fortified with sandbags, the machine-gun nests were loaded and ready, and the best-trained Wehrmacht units waited for the anticipated invasion of France. The Nazis had reinforced the Atlantic Wall along the coast of Pas-de-Calais, sure ...
Secret agents and fighter jets from Belarus pulled off an audacious hijacking in late May, breaking a long list of international laws and treaties to arrest a journalist who had been critical of the nation's dictator. As an Irish-flagged RyanAir ...
When the FBI was spying on the civil rights movement, one of its early targets was a man then known as Maxwell Stanford. Now he just goes by Doc, as described in a GoFundMe page asking for assistance with medical costs relating to a series of ...
The CIA dedicated four new stars on the agency's Memorial Wall in a quiet ceremony at its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Tuesday. The wall, which now holds 137 engraved stars, is the CIA’s memorial to agents and employees killed in the line of ...
Col. T. E. Lawrence fought in the Arabian desert beside men he loved, leading an army of divided Arab tribes across Transjordan — mostly today's Jordan — to expel the Ottoman Empire. His army of Arabs had two goals: to pull the people of Arabia out ...
On Dec. 10, 1946, a World War II-era C-46 transport carrying 32 Marines lost its way in heavy weather near Mount Rainier in Washington and crashed, killing all aboard. Though weather was the clear cause of the crash, the incident indirectly ...
