Fifty years ago, Los Angeles was shocked by the horrific slaughter of actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant, and four visitors to... Read More

Fernand Braudel wrote several smaller (in size) books that dealt with his favorite themes of capitalism and the Mediterranean. One of them is... Read More

 Saturday marks the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima – devastating acts that helped bring World War Two to a... Read More

Battle of Adrianople on August 9, 378 CE ranks among the worst military defeats in all of Roman history. Its estimated losses of over 10,000... Read More

"They describe Trump's unpredictability, his favoring of gut over hard data, his deliberate and almost reflexive ignoring of advice and... Read More

On a stormy Monday afternoon in the spring of 1844, a stout, well-built, 35-year-old Philadelphia newspaper editor ascended a makeshift... Read More

DR. SUSSER: Perhaps you could comment on the difference in the way the bureaucracy functioned and in the way the White House functioned with... Read More

Reproduced below are portions of the memoirs, published as Ambassador Morgenthau's Story in 1918 by Doubleday & Page, of the wartime U.S.... Read More

It has been 31 years since the biggest trade in NHL history, when the Oilers, a dynasty throughout the 1980s, did the unthinkable and traded... Read More

The Louvre in the Middle AgesDéplier / ReplierRead morePhilippe Auguste and the founding of the Louvre The history of the Louvre... Read More

No one wants war. When economic, diplomatic, territorial or political/religious relationships have deteriorated to the point that the... Read More

The naval battles off Guadalcanal in 1942 were part of the first major U.S. amphibious offensive in the Pacific. Although the U.S.... Read More

The general narrative of World War II credits the Marines and Navy for the victory in the Pacific and the Army and U.S. Army Air Corps for... Read More

In the midst of President Harry Truman’s controversial firing of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, Air Force General... Read More

Due largely to their use in the postwar U.S. Army Air Forces and present proliferation among the air show community, the North American P-51... Read More

What does an old, artsy Italian film have to tells us about truth in America? Let’s take a look. In 1962 – a moment in time when... Read More

The real Watergate scandal was the trashing of our Constitution and Bill of Rights in the successful effort to realign political power, to... Read More

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Certainly the most successful zeppelin ever built, LZ-127 was christened “Graf Zeppelin” by the daughter of Ferdinand Graf von... Read More

On Thursday, August 4, 2005, the Russian Navy mini-submersible AS-28 became stuck 200 metres under the Pacific Ocean, off the country’s... Read More