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Book Review: The Pope at War / The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini and Hitler

Newly released Vatican archives cast Pius XII’s wartime leadership in a damning light.

The first major biography of Admiral Chester Nimitz in nearly 50 years reveals important new insights on his World War II leadership.

The hedge-fund magnate has revealed what drove him to shell out $43.2 million for America’s charter of government.

At Gettysburg, the 125th N.Y. amended its woeful start to the war, but lost its highly regarded Colonel, George Willard.

The decades-long Wall of Faces project, meant to humanize the names on the iconic Vietnam War memorial, is now complete.

Some veterans are haunted by ghosts that have never gone away. Some, though, have tried to exorcise the ghosts and put the past aside.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Training Aircraft prepared astronauts for landing the “flying brick.”

These women birthed the suffragist movement, but fell out over whether Black men should have gotten the right to vote before white women.

Did the USSR typically allow prisoners to write home, or was this one especially lucky?

The famed Midwestern brigade, soon to be tested at Bull Run, celebrated the Fourth of July near Fredericksburg, Va.