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Before the founding of Israel, the Galilee, stretching from the Litani River in the North to the Jezreel Valley in the South, was a quiet region split between Mandatory Palestine and Lebanon. Largely ...

America's foremost heroes are cowboys, soldiers, and innovators. They imposed order on the Wild West. They showed courage on countless battlefields and saved civilization in the Second World War ...

In February 2003, the planning for Operation Iraqi Freedom felt like a math problem that could be solved with a discrete solution. Maps. Timelines. Phase lines. Routes. Bridges. Objectives. The maps w ...

The French and Indian War ended with the 1763 Treaty of Paris, with Britain receiving all French and Spanish-claimed territories between the Mississippi River and the British-American C ...

At Westminster Abbey, over 1,000 years of Christian observance and British royal ceremony are enshrined within a set of medieval walls. After a millennium, the Abbey exerts a powerful hold on British ...

With The Silent Service's First Hero, Ryan Walker gives Naval History lovers something special: The story of a man who defined humble hero, a look at the pre-WWII submarine community, and a ...

The Long Telegram of February 22, 1946, by the deputy to the United States Ambassador in the Soviet Union George Kennan, was a conceptual turning point in the history of the Cold War. Written by a pro ...

By February 1778, the Continental Army had already endured several months of a harsh, cold winter at Valley Forge. Though not the coldest conditions t ...

On the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs tragedy, we must remember what occurred to avoid an incident like it ever happening again. From April through October 1961, hundreds of executions ...

The payroll imbalance between the Dodgers and everyone else, and between big- and small-market franchises, is setting up an owner-union impasse that might kill the 2027 baseball season. Owners are dem ...