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The bugles that sound daily at a number of sites in Belgium serve as a haunting reminder of the hundreds of thousands of men who laid down... Read More

Milton Lee Olive III gave his life to save four comrades  Although President Harry S. Truman’s Executive Order 9981 ended... Read More

In April 1975, with the collapse of the South Vietnamese government looming, the United States prepared for withdrawal. President Gerald Ford... Read More

On October 22, 1983, the Federal Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois was the scene of a tragedy when inmates overpowered and killed 2... Read More

            The Thirty Years War, which lasted from 1618 to 1648, was finally brought to an end by the peace... Read More

Boo. Hoo. Lance Armstrong went on the Today show Thursday to lament how hard life has been since he admitted to being one of the biggest... Read More

In a 2013 blog post, the great Ursula K. Le Guin quotes a London Times Literary Supplement column by a “J.C.,” who satirically... Read More

During the 23 days the Beltway Sniper was shooting 13 people and murdering 10 in the D.C. suburbs, the press – especially the cable... Read More

Tens of thousands of years ago, before the internet, before the Industrial Revolution, before literature and mathematics, bronze and iron,... Read More

Fact #1: The Battle of Ball’s Bluff was the result of a “slight demonstration.” Three months after the Battle of Bull Run,... Read More

In the summer of 1941, Serbian guerrillas launched an uprising in central Serbia against the German occupation. The Serbian uprising spread... Read More

ne of the great joys of watching Netflix’s The Crown is following along with the historical events highlighted through its royal lens.... Read More

On October 21, 1096, a Seljuk Turk army led by Sultan Kilij Arslan I massacred a Christian army from Europe, known as the People’s... Read More

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought from October 23-26 1944 and was the largest naval battle of World War II. It may well be regarded as the... Read More

It's been said that the refugee crisis currently engulfing the world is the worst since World War II. That's a startling thought, and one... Read More

Elmer McCurdy became well known throughout the United States as a failed bank and train robber. Yet this was not to be his legacy. Instead,... Read More

Contrary to popular belief, the Soviet Union did not renounce all of its military personnel who were in German captivity. If a check revealed... Read More

The contribution of Augustus to the consolidation and stabilization of the 'Empire' from a governing and military perspective was immense,... Read More

A dozen or so years ago, I took temporary leave from Georgetown University and moved to Iraq for two years to preside over The American... Read More