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The Guns of the South
The Guns of the South is Harry Turtledove's 1992 Ballantine alternate-history novel in which South African white supremacists from 2014 give the Confederacy AK-47s; Lee wins the Civil War, becomes president, and pursues gradual emancipation.
The Hiker (Kitson)
The Hiker (Kitson) is a bronze Spanish-American War infantryman statue by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, first made in 1906 for the University of Minnesota and cast at least 50 times by Gorham from 1921 to 1965.
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, alongside millions of other victims, from 1933 to 1945.
The Holocaust in Hungary
The Holocaust in Hungary was the murder of about 550,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II, begun by the Hungarian government and completed with Nazi Germany after its March 1944 occupation.
The Holocaust in the Baltic states
The Holocaust in the Baltic states was the murder of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania's Jewish populations under German occupation from 1941 to 1944, mainly by mass shootings.
The Hooded Man
The Hooded Man is the iconic 2003 Abu Ghraib photograph of a hooded Iraqi detainee on a cardboard box with wired fingers, published worldwide in 2004 and widely appropriated in art and protest.
The Hump
The Hump: WWII Allied name for the eastern Himalayas and the India-China airlift (1942-45) over them, delivering about 650,000 tons of supplies to China; distinct from Operation Hump, a 1965 Vietnam battle of the 173rd Airborne.
The Last Night (September 11 attacks)
This instructional document, The Last Night, contains practical guidance and religious instructions for the hijackers and is remembered as marking the transition out of the pre-9/11 era.
The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer-winning 2006 narrative history of al-Qaeda's rise and the intelligence failures before September 11, centered on bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, John O'Neill, and Prince Turki al-Faisal.
The Maid of Orleans
The Maid of Orleans, or la Pucelle d'Orléans, is the traditional epithet of Joan of Arc, the French peasant who relieved Orléans and was burned in 1431.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a 1969 song by Robbie Robertson, sung by Levon Helm on The Band's album The Band, about the Civil War's end; Joan Baez's 1971 cover made it a hit.
The Red Badge of Gayness
The Red Badge of Gayness is South Park Season 3 Episode 14 (production 314), aired November 24, 1999, written by Trey Parker. Cartman leads drunken Confederate reenactors, fueled by Jagermen's S'More Schnapps, to win the Civil War.
The Soldier (poem)
The Soldier is a 1914 patriotic sonnet by Rupert Brooke, the last of his 1914 war sonnets, imagining burial in a foreign field that becomes forever England; famous from Dean Inge's 1915 St Paul's sermon and often contrasted with Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est.
The Thin Red Line (Battle of Balaclava)
The Thin Red Line: the two-deep stand of the 93rd (Highland) Regiment under Sir Colin Campbell that repelled Russian cavalry at Balaklava, 25 October 1854, named from Russell's 'thin red streak tipped with steel'.
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
The Trial of Henry Kissinger is Christopher Hitchens' 2001 Verso book, expanded from Harper's articles, arguing Kissinger should face war-crimes prosecution over Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor, and the Iraqi Kurds; adapted into Eugene Jarecki's 2002 documentary.
The Undefeated (1969 film)
The Undefeated is a 1969 American Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson as former Union and Confederate colonels leading rival columns into Mexico.
The Underground Railroad (novel)
The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead: alternate-history novel in which Cora escapes a Georgia plantation on a literal underground train, stopping in different worlds by state. Pulitzer 2017 and National Book Award 2016 winner; adapted by Barry Jenkins.
The Unknown Warrior
The Unknown Warrior: unidentified First World War British soldier buried in Westminster Abbey on 11 November 1920, chosen blind at St Pol by General Wyatt, repatriated aboard HMS Verdun; counterpart to France's Arc de Triomphe Unknown Soldier.
The war to end war
Author H.G. Wells coined "the war to end all wars" in 1914 to describe World War I, arguing the resulting conflict would lead to a utopia and global peace.
Theft of Bolívar's sword
Theft of Bolívar's sword: M-19 guerrillas took Simón Bolívar's sword from Bogotá's Quinta de Bolívar on 17 January 1974 as symbolic propaganda, hid it about 16 years, and returned it in January 1991 after demobilizing.
Third Anglo-Afghan War
The Third Anglo-Afghan War (War of Independence), May-June 1919: Amanullah's Afghanistan invaded British India; the Treaty of Rawalpindi of 8 August 1919 recognized full Afghan independence.
Third Anglo-Maratha War
Third Anglo-Maratha War, also the Pindari War (1817–1818): final East India Company victory over the Maratha Confederacy. Baji Rao II's defeats at Kirkee, Koregaon, and Mahidpur ended the Peshwa's office; the Company took Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Berar.
Third Battle of Kharkov
Third Battle of Kharkov, or Manstein's Donets Campaign, February-March 1943 German counteroffensive by Army Group South and the SS Panzer Corps that recaptured Kharkov from the Soviets after Stalingrad and set the stage for Kursk.
Third Battle of Panipat
The Third Battle of Panipat, also called the Durrani Empire–Maratha Confederacy War, was fought on 14 January 1761 near Delhi, where Ahmad Shah Durrani's coalition destroyed the Maratha army.
Third Battle of Seoul
The Third Battle of Seoul, also called the Chinese New Year's Offensive, was a Korean War battle in which Chinese forces recaptured Seoul on 4 January 1951.
Third Crusade
Third Crusade (1189–1192): Latin European expedition after Saladin's 1187 victory at Hattin and capture of Jerusalem, led by Barbarossa, Philip II, and Richard I; centered on the two-year siege of Acre and ended with the Treaty of Jaffa, leaving Jerusalem in Muslim hands.
Third Frontier War
The Third Frontier War, also called the third Cape–Xhosa war, was a 1799–1803 conflict on the Cape Colony's eastern frontier between Xhosa and Khoikhoi forces and the British.
Third Geneva Convention
Third Geneva Convention (GC III, 12 August 1949), 143-article treaty governing prisoners of war in international armed conflict; successor to the 1929 POW Convention, with humane treatment, Article 118 repatriation, and 2020 ICRC Commentary.
Third Indochina War
Third Indochina War (Cambodia conflict), 1978–1991: Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia on 25 December 1978 with 150,000–220,000 troops, the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, ASEAN-China-Thailand-Khmer Rouge resistance to Soviet-backed Vietnam, and the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements.
Third Mongol invasion of Poland
The Third Mongol invasion of Poland, a 1287–1288 raiding campaign by Talabuga Khan and Nogai Khan, ravaged Lesser Poland but failed to take Kraków or Sandomierz.