During World War II, I served as an aircraft electrical mechanic with the 305th Airdrome Squadron, 5th Air Force in the Pacific. From October 1944 until June 1945, our unit...
“It’s just a cacophony that’s almost deafening.” This is the way Joe Galloway described the sounds of battle...
On the surface, Alfred Nobel was a man of contradictions. A man of science who was devoted to the arts...
In November 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, many Americans sat down to a Thanksgiving feast, gathering family around a table piled high with food and drink...
For any president giving a speech before a joint session of Congress, knowing that millions of Americans would be huddled next to their radios listening to every word...
Six thousand years ago, somewhere in Asia, people began using horses and mules in warfare...
The first great collision of the Civil War that took place on the Plains of Manassas on July 21, 1861, demonstrated the importance of railroads for moving large numbers of men to strategic positions...
One hundred and fifty years ago this spring, Robert E. Lee faced one of the most important decisions of his life. The nation was steeling itself for the bloody shock of civil war...
Journalist A.J. Liebling once wrote that while Theodore Roosevelt Sr. had been a dilettante soldier and first-class politician, his son Ted had been the reverse...