On February 21, 1945, while supporting the US invasion of Iwo Jima in the Pacific, the US aircraft carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 was struck by 3... Read More

1. The Germans designed Verdun to be a battle of attrition. World War I battles often started with tactical objectives and devolved into... Read More

Mikhail Romanov, the first monarch of the dynasty that ruled Russia for more than 300 years, was not your typical tsar. He was delicate, kind... Read More

One of the great things about being a sportswriter is that every so often you get to live out the Super Bowl scene in the movie "Big."... Read More

he Auschwitz camp complex has become a universal symbol of the Holocaust. Research scholars at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum estimate... Read More

The Battle of Valverde was fought on February 21, 1862, during the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). On December 20, 1861, Brigadier General... Read More

The Washington Monument was constructed in two phases after laying the cornerstone in 1848. The color line shows where construction halted in... Read More

On an April afternoon in 1897, thousands of women packed the Boston Theatre to see the nation’s most beguiling female... Read More

Over the decades since that fateful February afternoon in 1965, questions surrounding the death of this provocative and intrepid man still... Read More

Watching The Theory of Everything, the biographical film about Stephen Hawking, one wonders: why do geniuses behave like jerks? There is... Read More

Olustee, Florida—Lugging their private artillery pieces behind their pick-up trucks, heavy-weapons hobbyists drive days to get to the... Read More

On February 20, 1942, the United States was still reeling from the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and was in desperate... Read More

The airliner levels out of its banking turn and continues in a gentle descent. The passengers hear a whir and feel a clunk as the pilot... Read More

February 18, 2015 | by Paul G. Kengor | Topic: American History & Presidents, Biography, Military & Foreign Policy PrintOn... Read More

Kermit Carlson, a Minnesota farmboy, was a radioman attached to the 19th Combat Engineers defending the Kasserine Pass - a barren corridor he... Read More

The United States had not yet entered World War II when Time magazine noted that the Army had created two new armored divisions. The... Read More

US Major General Lloyd Fredendall had never seen Sidi bou Zid, the patch of North African desert where his forces were about to clash with... Read More

Fifty years ago Monday, a young Marine Corps fighter pilot shoe-horned himself into a cramped Mercury capsule blasted off from Cape Canaveral... Read More

It ain’t Lincoln. It sure ain’t Franklin Roosevelt. And unfortunately it ain’t Washington. But it is another Virginian. The... Read More

Scalping is removal of all or part of the scalp & hair from an enemy’s head. Historical evidence indicates that many cultures have... Read More