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As the story goes, German troops rolled their tanks into Poland in September 1939 and were eventually met by Polish soldiers on horseback.... Read More

Commander Frederick Julian Becton, captain of the destroyer USS Laffey (DD 724), took the radio message his communications officer handed him... Read More

At noon on April 18, 1942, the citizens of Tokyo looked up into the sky and saw the impossible.Zooming low over the imperial capital was a... Read More

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was very angry and very eager to kick some ass — hence the decision to carry out the... Read More

The Norman expansion in 11th century Europe is a movement of enormous historical importance which took men and women from the duchy of... Read More

1. Annie Oakley was not her real name. The fifth of seven surviving children, Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Moses on August 13, 1860, in rural... Read More

Roland Garros (1888-1918) was a leading pre-war French aviator and gained renewed fame during the First World War. Garros' interest in... Read More

The town of Haparanda, 700 miles north of Stockholm, is a lonely smudge of civilization in the vast tundra of Swedish Lapland. It was once a... Read More

World War I is supposed to be about men stuck in the mud of trench warfare, a static stalemate with little movement. Yet there were... Read More

Claremont Institute president Ryan Williams says that American civic education faces an acute crisis. In his estimation, essentially every... Read More

You wake up to a dark, dreary, glum-feeling, Monday-type of morning. For the 547th consecutive day. Just 18 months prior, you were a... Read More

For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious... Read More

Vilified forever in the epic tragedy as the 'Ship Who Watched Titanic Sink', the SS Californian remains one of the biggest unanswered... Read More

Military History.  Cadet of the Military Academy, June 15, 1808, to Mar. 1, 1811, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to... Read More

tumbling through choking smoke, Antoine-Marie Préaut was on a divine mission. The conservator of the 4,000 or so historic monuments in... Read More

Ostensibly the Sino-Japanese War was a conflict between Japan and China for dominance over China's tributary, Korea. In reality, it was a... Read More

In 2018 Israel celebrated its seventieth anniversary, marking a history beset by both controversy and triumph. Researchers grapple with the... Read More

 (1) In the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War, Qing China ceded Taiwan to Japan in the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki. With the... Read More

On Thursday, every Major League Baseball player will don a No. 42 jersey in honor of Jackie Robinson Day. The annual event, celebrated... Read More

Taxpaying is a civic ritual. The annual ceremony -- gathering records, completing returns, rushing to the post office -- has been diluted in... Read More