Captain John E. Donovan, an electronic warfare officer, monitored the equipment in his F-100F Super Sabre fighter. It was December 22, 1965,... Read More

It was 1 August 1990. Saddam Hussein had been rattling his sword for six months, threatening to burn Israel and take over Kuwait. But the... Read More

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Comparisons between the United States under Trump and Germany during the Hitler era are once again being made following the storming of the... Read More

Robert Conrad knew things could get uncomfortable. There were the guards, the explosions, the dark tunnels. He could easily stumble across a... Read More

When protests against the rule of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi broke out in Libya in February 2011, the government’s security forces... Read More

Ennis Cosby's convicted killer has abandoned his appeal and confessed to the murder, prosecutors said Friday. Mikail Markhasev, a... Read More

It all started with an insult. During Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign, his political opponents labeled him a "jackass."... Read More

Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal is a hidden gem among institutions working to reform civic... Read More

Now that my New York Jets have been eliminated it's not for me to predict the winner—or even have much of a rooting interest—in... Read More

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To ignore Murphy’s Law—“anything that can go wrong will go wrong”—while conducting flight operations on an... Read More

On March 6, 1822, a 12-gun schooner named Enterprise captured four pirate vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. The event is little known, not well... Read More

George Wallace’s name doesn’t deserve to be on any building anywhere. That there is debate about this is, quite frankly,... Read More

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Albert Schweitzer, (born Jan. 14, 1875, Kaysersberg, Upper Alsace, Ger. [now in France]—died Sept. 4, 1965, Lambaréné,... Read More

At the site of an abandoned adobe ranch-house, Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont signed a treaty, generally termed the "Capitulation of... Read More

Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Presidential Proclamations 2525, 2526, and 2527 to authorize the... Read More

Stanford's miracle finish to beat Arizona on Saturday kept the Cardinal undefeated in men's college hoops, matching Saint Joseph's perfect... Read More

The [Japanese] could have landed anywhere on the coast, and after our handful of ammunition was gone, they could have shot us like pigs in a... Read More