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How a Sex Scandal Helped Grover Cleveland May 29, 2024
It was, most people agreed, a fatal scandal for a presidential campaign. The only mystery seemed to be how the candidate had kept this skeleton crammed in his closet for so long. Oblique talk of “woman trouble” had swirled in his wake for a while.But...
Troubles of 2024 Echo Lowest Presidential Campaigns May 29, 2024
It was a vicious campaign. The Republican challenger to the incumbent Democratic president hurled scurrilous accusations that he was conspiring with others to alter the election outcome. No, this was not 2024, but the campaign of 1940. The Republican...
Why Did the Luftwaffe Avoid Bombing Parts of Britain? May 29, 2024
From September 1940 to May 1941, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) executed a sustained campaign of bombing British towns and cities. This became known as the Blitz and over 43,500 civilians were killed.The city of London was bombed more frequently an...
"Appeal for Amnesty" Campaign Launches (1961) May 25, 2024
A Civil War-Era Strategy That Could Help the Biden Campaign May 16, 2024
According to some polls, Joe Biden and the Democrats may be heading towards a grim outcome in November. Not only does the Senate map favor Republicans, the President’s approval ratings are dismal. There’s some indication the Biden team knows it, too....
The 1964 Campaign Ad That Leveraged Cold War Fears May 15, 2024
Though it only aired once, the so-called “Daisy” ad played on fears of nuclear war in the race between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater. ...
The Debate Gaffe That Changed American History May 10, 2024
On Oct. 6, 1976, President Gerald Ford had reason to be optimistic heading into the second debate of a hotly contested campaign against Jimmy Carter. Foreign policy was on the agenda, and the Ford team saw a major opportunity to brush back the former...
When a Former President Tries to Win an Election May 01, 2024
Donald Trump is not the first former president to launch a comeback campaign to return to the White House. Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover all attempted comebacks. Only Cle...
Here's How N. Africa Became a WW II Battleground March 22, 2022
The battle for North Africa was a struggle for control of the Suez Canal and access to oil from the Middle East and raw materials from Asia. Oil in particular had become a critical strategic commodity due to the increased mechanization of modern armi...
Biden's Long History With Putin Shaping Strategy March 22, 2022
(CNN)Joe Biden always says foreign relations is about relationships, and he's been developing the one he has with Vladimir Putin for two decades.Biden warned that Putin had dreams of rebuilding an authoritarian empire going all the way back to his da...
America's 'New' Permanent Campaigns March 21, 2022
This is the era of the "new" permanent campaign, says author and pollster Michael D. Cohen. The idea comes from a term coined by Jimmy Carter's pollster (and later Trump whisperer) Pat Caddell. Weeks after helping guide Carter to victory in the 1976 ...
Burma Was a Fight Neither Japan Nor Allies Really Wanted March 21, 2022
The campaign in which Allied forces defeated the Japanese in Burma was unique in that neither side particularly wished to wage war there. When Japan entered the war on the side of the Axis powers in December 1941, her main aims were to acquire raw ma...
New Zealand Put Up Brave, Bloody Fight in Cassino March 15, 2022
The struggle for Cassino in early 1944 was one of the most brutal and costly battles involving New Zealand forces in the Second World War. For the New Zealand Division, this German strongpoint southeast of Rome would prove the most tragically elusive...
Civil War: Red River Campaign March 09, 2022
Devastation Shaped Key Historical Cities March 09, 2022
We envision the history of our cities to be a step-by-step sequence of accomplishments, from small settlements to towns to the sprawling metropolises we see today. The darker parts are remembered as merely interludes – ‘dark ages’ – in the grand stor...
Bloody, Long Battle for Bougainville March 08, 2022
The campaign to reduce the importance of the major Japanese base at Rabaul on the island of New Britain—begun more than a year earlier at Guadalcanal and Buna, New Guinea—was finally in its last stages by November 1943, as U.S. Marines fought the Jap...
Book and AirBnB in Ukraine, But Don't Go March 07, 2022
(CNN) — Volodymyr Bondarenko spends most of his day holed up in his apartment in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.Between listening for air-raid sirens and frantically messaging family for updates, he trades messages with a flurry of Airbnb guests booki...
Inside Alec Baldwin Shooting on 'Rust' Set March 03, 2022
Mary Carmack-Altwies raced across the desert, chasing some peace and quiet.She had won her campaign to become Santa Fe’s district attorney the year before, and her first 10 months in office were intense and all-consuming. In her previous life as a pu...
The Lure of the Caliphate March 02, 2022
It has now become clear that Barack Obama is under enormous pressure to intensify the campaign against ISIS. Last week, as the White House held a summit on countering extremist violence in which Obama declared, “we are at war with people who have per...
Law of War and Problem With 'Rolling Thunder' March 02, 2022
On 2 March 1965, 104 United States Air Force and 19 South Vietnamese Air Force aircraft attacked a small military supply depot and the minor naval base at Quang Khe in North Vietnam. This effort marked the inauspicious beginning of the 43-month bombi...
Lure of Gandhi and Freedom Fighters March 01, 2022
“You shall be my daughter,” said Mahatma Gandhi to Madeleine Slade on the day she arrived at his ashram in India in 1925. Slade, whose father was a British admiral, was then 32 years old. She’d undertaken the journey from Britain so that she could—as...
Exposing Author of 'Hitler's Pope' March 01, 2022
At the beginning of the 19th century, a book appeared in North America entitled The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. Lurid and shocking, it told the story of one Maria Monk who, after a Protestant upbringing near Montreal, entered a Canadian convent ...
