President Harry S. Truman’s orders for atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. […]
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Li-Wo’s Last Fight
Thomas Wilkinson Royal Navy Reserve Victoria Cross Java Sea February 14, 1942 His Majesty’s […]
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Hallowed Ground: Nu‘uanu Pali, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i
Standing at the Nu‘uanu Pali overlook on O‘ahu, it is hard to imagine that […]
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When the Mongols Met Their March
In 1260 at the spring of Ayn J¯al¯ut in Palestine, an Egyptian Mamluk army […]
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Michael Collins: Rebel of the Cause
In his violent efforts to secure Irish Independence, the shrewd guerrilla leader paid back the British ‘in their own coin’
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War and Healing
Many of history’s transformational medical innovations were born on the battlefield. The history of […]
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The Last Hero: William J. Donovan
William J. Donovan U.S. Army Medal of Honor Landres-et-Saint Georges, France October 14 and […]
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What We Learned from the Bay of Pigs, 1961
The epitaph for the disastrous April 17–19, 1961, attempt to overthrow communist dictator Fidel […]
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Daily Quiz for March 15, 2017
Reportedly, the last stagecoach robbery in the United States was in 1898 in Arizona. Robber Pearl Hart was sentenced to five years but her accomplice, Joe Boot, received this long sentence.
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Hallowed Ground: Chemin des Dames, France
German history books style it the Damenweg, while the French call it the Chemin […]