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On Independence Day, Americans across the nation will gather with friends and family to enjoy cookouts, pool parties, picnics--and, of course, fireworks. It is a good thing to celebrate the natio ...

To say the international environment has become more challenging is an understatement. China, Russia, and North Korea explicitly challenge American leadership, and they aim to erase America's mi ...

On a frigid morning in December 1812, the remnants of Napoleon's once-mighty Grande Armée staggered across the Berezina River, their uniforms in tatters, their numbers decimated, and thei ...

Theodore Roosevelt felt antsy amid the 1904 campaign season. He was up for reelection, but the inexhaustible TR couldn't hit the trail. Custom dictated that a sitting president not activel ...

As President Donald J. Trump sends National Guard troops to help reduce crime in the nation's cities, lessons from Edmund Burke, a prominent conservative politician in Britain during the 18th-ce ...

In Noah Hawley's Fargo, a fictional tale of pervasive crime and tested loyalty, Kansas City mafia hitman Mike Milligan ponders the following:

As the Blitz progressed (from 7 Spetember 1940-11 May 1941) the undulating sound of German bomber engines became a nightly, dreaded sound over London and other British cities. The Luftwaffe fleet sent ...

Some souls shine like stars in life--and blaze even more brightly in death, defying the darkness that abhors their light and seeks to extinguish it. And yet the stars, steadfast in their courses,

As night followed night during 1940-1941, civilians and civil defence teams across Britain were confronted by shocking sights and sounds. The spine-tingling, stomach-churning wail of air raid sirens.

At 9:02 a.m. on a terrifically hot late September Monday in San Diego, Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182, banking steeply over the North Park neighborhood on final approach to Lindbergh Field, cli ...