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In the annals of American history, few resources have left as indelible a mark as oil. Its discovery and exploitation have not been mere economic activities; they have been the sinews that bound the n ...

In the United States, November 11th has been known as Veterans Day since 1954 (before that, it was known as Armistice Day). Originally, Veterans Day commemorated the Allies' victory in World War ...

The reelection of Donald Trump is rightfully being seen as repudiation of "woke"--DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and CRT (Critical Race Theory). Trump is planning to root out ...

The nation has had no elected president quite like Donald J. Trump. But his soulmate and prototype no doubt would be Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president. Folk hero, national celebrity ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates has been making the rounds in a variety of outlets to promote his latest book, The Message. His stated aim in writing it was to explain the role that stories play in shaping a society ...

In the annals of American history, few achievements symbolize progress and the American spirit of expansion like the Interstate Highway System. Launched under President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, t ...

Let us focus upon one of the major lessons of history that if something appears too good to be true, then for all intents and purposes, it quite likely is. As the United States navigates the complexit ...

Intelligence isn't always decisive. It can be, but there are cases where it is claimed to have done so when it didn't. A case in point is German general Erwin Rommel and the 1942 ...

The Historians Costello and Tsarev contend that Joseph Stalin harbored a "horrible secret," namely that as a young revolutionary the Red dictator had been an informant for the Tsarist secr ...

The second election of Donald Trump means professional historians lost the 2024 election. The results were apparent to many, but the loss of all seven battleground states, the Senate, the House of Rep ...