#history

It is only natural that a conversation about an autobiography turns to a conversation about vanity. After all, who writes a book about himself? In his "Autobiography,"  ...

On April 17, 1945, as the war in the Pacific neared its crescendo, a tall nineteen-year-old farm boy from a small town outside Lexington, Tennesee, stood on the deck of the USS Trousdale (AKA-79)

"It really is the most terrible, terrible place." My late father's voice, on a small Dictaphone tape, speaks to me clearly down three decades. He made the recording at Auschwitz ...

When the White House invoked the "Immortal Chaplains" to illustrate the history between the United States and Greenland, it touched on a theme emerging in the second Trump administration:

In 1786, the fledgling United States was struggling under the Articles of Confederation. The central government could not tax, regulate trade, or enter in to treaties as an undivided nation. Something ...

On July 13, 1793, a young woman and a Girondin sympathizer, Charlotte Corday, walked bravely into 30 Rue des Cordeliers and assassinated the radical and bloodthirsty Jean-Paul Marat. The radical journ ...

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a man of many talents whose life provides an interesting pivotal transitional point from the American Revolution on one side of the Atl ...

On July 13, 1793, a young woman and a Girondin sympathizer, Charlotte Corday, walked bravely into 30 Rue des Cordeliers and assassinated the radical and bloodthirsty Jean-Paul Marat. The radical journ ...

In the last two decades, many conservatives have been calling for a Convention of States, (a more appealing term than a Constitutional Convention), to restore federalism and reduce the power and scope ...

Legend has it that nearly two and a half centuries before President Trump declared English as the official language of the United States, Hebrew was proposed as an alternative. In 1791, the Marq ...