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"The bombers kept coming," the late Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale recounted in his extraordinary 1984 memoir In Love and War, "and we kept cheering." That night, over fifty-

The Supreme Court's ruling in Marbury v. Madison (1803) has long been recognized for its important articulation of the constitutional doctrine of judicial review. Chief Justice John Ma ...

A scrap of paper in the Massachusetts State Archives tells a great story. Dated August 1775, it is an invoice for £11, one shilling (about $2,000 today) submitted to the Massachusetts provi ...

The year 1890 was eventful in the U.S. Congress. President Benjamin Harrison signed the ostensibly antimonopoly Sherman Act into law on July 2. Then, on October 1, President Harrison signed a tariff b ...

Fifty years ago, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution equating Zionism with racism and racial discrimination. Resolution 3379, which was adopted on the 10th of No ...

In the late 1980s, some U.S. Army linguists prepared to fight a war in Chevrolet pickup trucks. Both those Chevies and the linguists inside them would fail in a war. And when the Gulf War began in 199 ...

With the 1798 Alien Enemies Law in the news as the Trump administration attempts to remove foreign nationals from the United States without the typically required legal processes, a historical view pr ...

Largely forgotten to history, the Locarno Conference of October 1925 was a turning point in the interwar European diplomatic landscape. The conference initiated the re-integration of Germany into the ...

In the formative years of the United States, as the young nation grappled with threats both foreign and domestic, the militia stood as a cornerstone of its security and identity. Far from the caricatu ...

This April marks the 250th anniversary of the famous shots fired at Concord, Massachusetts, that set off the American Revolution. Captain Levi Preston, who fought there, later captured the principles ...