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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 ...

The founding of Rome is in the realm of myth and legend as well as history. Rome's historic past was obscured by the mist of time, and so when the Romans reached their apogee, and Rome had becom ...

Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding. Expand the number of core ideas under consideration to three and you get unalienable rights ...

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,

The judicial branch serves as a vital check on executive and legislative authority. This instrumental role has come into sharp focus during Donald Trump's presidency. Courts have repeatedly chal ...

When Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, he delivered astonishing news: enslaved people in the furthest reaches of the former Confederacy were now free. W ...

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, who had covertly aided the American Revolution, had long coveted his civil rights. And in the France of the 1780s, he used the theater not only as ...

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 ...

Donald Trump is the first mythic hero of the twenty-first century. That many recoil at this statement does not deny its obvious truth. Heroism isn't about winning a popularity contest. The moder ...

The ancient Romans expanded their power and influence by treaties, alliances, and wars, eventually controlling the Italian peninsula, assimilating the neighboring Etruscan culture to the northea ...