Conventional wisdom holds “The Few” handed Nazi Germany its first defeat in World War II and set the Allies on the road to ultimate victory. But is that true?
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Famed Doctor Tom Dooley Secretly Helped CIA
The celebrity humanitarian had a complicated past, including struggles related to his sexuality and troubling ties to the CIA.
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James Garfield’s Greatest Fear: Being Stained by the Credit Mobilier Corruption Scandal
The ambitious Ohio Republican dreaded being caught up with congressmen in complicated railroad scheme
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Enduring Lessons from ‘Miracle at St. Anna’
Seventy-five years after World War II’s end, the “Double-V Campaign” still falls short of being fulfilled.
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Richmond’s Wartime Woes
The Confederate capital endured famine, riots, and eventual destruction by its own army
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Dutch Museums Scramble to Tighten Security After String of Nazi-Related Memorabilia Heists
A string of thefts across the Netherlands has led many war museums to quickly […]
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Book Review: God is My Co-Pilot
I grew up hearing stories about the air war in China. During World War II, my father was an aircraft electrical systems mechanic in Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault’s Fourteenth Air Force.
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Forgotten Casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis
How the shootdown of a U-2 spyplane over Cuba by a Soviet surface-to-air missile nearly led to nuclear war
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Sketching a War’s Toll
South Korea’s most famous cartoonist cut his teeth as an artist in the early 1950s while war raged through—and devastated—his homeland.
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Book Review: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Historian John R. Maass relates the 1781 North Carolina clash that started the British down the road to defeat