President's Day is often treated as a generic celebration of presidents - or, more commonly, as a convenient sales event marking the approach of spring. The modern observance, falling betw ...
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On December 7, 1941, Americans awoke to a quiet Sunday that would end in war. Sixty years later, on another unremarkable morning, I walked into my unit to sign in. By the time the second tower fell, t ...
Writing about 100 A.D. in his Histories, the Roman historian Tacitus describes the origin of the Jews in Palestine. Tacitus was focused on the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the final act i ...
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 ...
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 ...