Prof. Taaffe (Stephen F. Austin State) follows his Marshall and His Generals with this look at senior U.S. commanders in Korea. He opens with a discussion of the outbreak of the war in Korea, and the ...

Some call them modern-day shamans, others might call them faith healers. The South Korean followers of musok call them mudang ...

"What do you think of Douglas MacArthur?" Few questions in military history are more loaded. "It's no secret that MacArthur was and is a polarizing figure," Barbara Noe Kennedy wrote in World War ...

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. "MacArthur" begins in 1942, following the fall of ...

Major Harry B. Bailey, an intelligence officer for the 98th Bomb Group, briefs a B-29 crew on hitting a target in Sinuiju, North Korea with conventional bombs. The city was heavily damaged but has ...

"You couldn't shrug your shoulders at Douglas MacArthur," observes historian David McCullough. "There was nothing bland about him, nothing passive about him, nothing dull about him. There's no ...

The Korean War, often referred to as "The Forgotten War," was fought from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. This website is dedicated to thanking and honoring all the veterans of the Korean War ...

"I never thought anything would come of them," John Rich says of the some 1,000 personal photographs that he made as a reporter during the war. John Rich On the June morning in 1950 when war broke ...