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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 ...

August 8th marks 80 years since the dawn of the atomic age. This is a story about two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and two remarkable men: Jacob Beser and Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Beser, a First Lieutena ...

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 ...

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 ...

September 2025 marks 85 years since the start of the Blitz, the systematic attempt by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany to bomb Britain into submission from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941. 'The Blitz ...

Hamilton, Gifted Immigrant, Student, and Soldier Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) was born in the West Indies on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean, descended from the laird of Grange in Scotlan ...

While we may assume that we are currently in the most profoundly and rapidly changing era of humankind, the century spanning from 1450 to 1550 A.D. stands out as a period of such deep and interconnect ...

On April 4, 2003, as the invasion of Iraq reached its critical phase, the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rdInfantry Division, seized Saddam International Airport-codenamed Objective Lions ...

Earlier this month, the hashtag #trumpisdead went viral on X, and the term "TRUMP DIED" earned millions of likes and views online. Anonymous left-wing social media accounts likely planted ...

There is a sickness inside our hearts. It aches for something brighter, better, a more resplendent mode of being. God, perhaps. Or temporary deliverance from the pain of being alive, and of knowing we ...