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The French and Indian War is one of the most significant, yet widely forgotten, events in American history. It was a conflict that pitted two... Read More

On May 15, 1718, Mr. Puckle patented what could be considered the first machine gun. With “innovative” ideas like a version with... Read More

The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square... Read More

The Macedonian soldiers stood transfixed on the flood plain as the Pauravan army advanced toward them. The ground shook with each step the... Read More

When the news came, in the late evening of May 14th, that Frank Sinatra had died at age eighty-two of a massive heart attack, it did not... Read More

Over their 165 million-year reign on Earth, hundreds of billions of dinosaurs lived and died. Occasionally, they did the latter en masse,... Read More

Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the infamous May 16 Notice that officially started China's Cultural Revolution, leading to the... Read More

By the final weeks of the Second World War, Soviet troops had advanced westward, pushing the Nazi army back to Berlin. When the war ended,... Read More

The 20th century witnessed death and slaughter on an unprecedented scale. It was the century of the Holocaust and two World Wars; of... Read More

If Abraham Lincoln were alive today and looking out from a speaker’s stand over our divided nation, he would probably once again... Read More

The idea behind the first official colonial settlement in the Americas was created with the intent to grow, expand, and find a new life in a... Read More

Mary became Queen of Scotland in December 1542 when she was just six days old. However, her minority was plagued by factional infighting as... Read More

The long lasting interest in the war of 1948 has not emanated from its unique features as a military campaign. Rather, scholarly interest and... Read More

As the German attack on Moscow, Russia was thwarted, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin called for a major counteroffensive. His closest advisers... Read More

On May 11, 1846, President James K. Polk sent a special message to Congress asking for a declaration of war against Mexico. In his message,... Read More

KOH TANG, Cambodia — Monsoon rains and fearsome waves pound Koh Tang, as they have since the last battle of the Vietnam War nearly 38... Read More

The Cold War was a worldwide war that often manifested in bizarre ways that aren’t fully understood, even today. In 1958, Richard Nixon... Read More

A young assailant dressed in red, white and blue shot Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama yesterday in the midst of a Laurel campaign rally,... Read More

The rise of critical race theory, along with the popularity of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, presents a serious challenge to the... Read More