Pope Pius XII: Hero in the Unmaking
The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII exploits, the...
History
1960: A Year That Changed America
The lives of most Americans in 1960 were markedly different from a decade earlier...
Nullification in a Nutshell
The “Principles of 98,” as they came to be known, are rarely discussed in...
Valentine Tribute to Sir William Blackstone
Most people identify February 14 with Valentine's Day, a holiday confined mostly to the...
The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back
The year is 732 A.D., and Europe is under assault. Islam, born a mere...
Martin Luther King: The Celebration of a Myth
NAACP chairman Julian Bond said last week that the Dr. Martin Luther King we...
The Killing Field at Malmedy
Forty-five years ago, former SS troops gathered by the thousands. Old friends emerged from...
Nixon Library Releases Cache of Presidential Papers
It wasn’t just Oval Office tape recordings that Richard Nixon wanted to get rid...
John Colter: The First Mountain Man
The sinewy, bearded man raced up the brushy hillside, blood streaming from his nose...
The King Still Works for Uncle Sam
Great legends are often built on the ashes of someone's destruction — whether figurative...
Forgotten Influences of the Founders
Our own Founding Fathers were convinced, and history has proven them prescient, that they...
1914 and Christmas: What Might Have Been
As Americans come to dread the increasingly bromidic nature of the festive season (where,...
George Washington’s First Final Farewell
A generation after George Washington’s Christmastime farewell to his troops and to the Congress...
Pearl Harbor: A True Day of Infamy
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor....
Hidden History of the Winter War
November 30, 1939 marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most misunderstood wars...
The 60th Anniversary of Orwell’s 1984
Sixty years following its first publication and twenty-five since the fateful year, George Orwell’s...
In Government, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
In politics, it seems, nothing succeeds like failure. The most successful men in American...
Archaelogists Uncover Ancient Persian Army
Give Herodotus his due: the fifth-century B.C. Greek historian had a far better understanding...
Nazis & Communists: Ideological Bedfellows
Benito Mussolini has an infamous place in modern history, as well he should. Nearly...
Remembering the Mass-murderer Mao
The statement by Anita Dunn, Obama’s Communications Director, describing Mao Tse-tung (aka Mao Zedong)...