How Hawaii’s indebted last queen lost her throne to sugar barons and the American rush to empire
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Hallowed Ground: Fort Monroe, Virginia
Coastal Virginia is seamed by tidal rivers, marshes and creeks that feed into and […]
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The Prophet of Sea Power
In 1890 Alfred Thayer Mahan published a book that transformed naval theory—and unleashed the […]
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A Day of Blizzard and Blood
The crown was at stake when, on a late winter day in 1461, two […]
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The U.S. Marines’ Mythic Fight at Belleau Wood
Piercing the fog of war to separate legend from fact. Many historians consider the […]
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Napoléon: What Made Him Great?
A talented combat leader, the diminutive emperor was also a shrewd judge of human nature.
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Decisions: Napoléon’s Dash to Jena
No general in history has a greater reputation for decisiveness than Napoléon Bonaparte. As […]
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What We Learned: from the Italo-Ethiopian War
Conventional wisdom holds that the Spanish Civil War was the dress rehearsal for World […]
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Valor: Bravery Over Belgium
Robert Guy Robinson U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Pitthem, Belgium Oct. 14, 1918 […]
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Book Review: Federal Stewardship of Confederate Dead
During the Civil War era and its aftermath, Union dead were treated honorably with […]