Who Was George G. Meade? with Dr. Allen Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of […]
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Daily Quiz for July 2, 2011
This renowned teacher spent several childhood years in a state almshouse where a brother died.
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Daily Quiz for July 1, 2011
Central Pennsylvania first hosted this now-annual event in 1887.
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Daily Quiz for June 30, 2011
Robert Fulton, who developed the Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat, originally earned his living doing this.
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How ‘Doctor Feelgood’ Almost Drove John F. Kennedy to the Brink of Nuclear Disaster
Did the mysterious injections the president received from a quack doctor before a crucial summit with Comrade Khrushchev put the world closer to the nuclear brink?
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Sacred Trust: Gettysburg Perspectives Lecture Series
A Sacred Trust: Gettysburg Perspectives Lecture Series July 1, 2 & 3, […]
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Daily Quiz for June 29, 2011
This activist co-founded the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez.
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How to Steal a Navy and Save 30,000 Refugees
During the evacuation of Saigon, the USS Kirk received a surprising radio message to turn around and head back to Vietnam
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Book Review – No Sure Victory, by Gregory A. Daddis
The measurement problem involved in assessing counterinsurgency “success” was never solved in Vietnam, though the Army produced 14,000 pounds of reports daily.