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Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, with the signing of the peace treaty aboard the USS Missouri. On August 22 the last American flying ace of the war d ...

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 ...

Ken Khachigian, 81, of Orange County, California, was in the room with Reagan and Nixon. In the fall of 1967, Khachigian was a second-year law student at Columbia University when he wrote a letter to ...

Sometime, someplace in the Judean Hills in the year 132 the storm broke. It had been a long time coming, but even so it shocked the Romans. It shocked them enough that it may have cost them a legion a ...

Many opponents of so-called Bolivarian socialism welcomed the capture and arrest of Nicholas Maduro. Yet, while rejoicing in the fall of a tyrant, one cannot help but share an important observation: t ...

People may think the 2020s in America seem like strange times, but 1881 could give it a run for its money. A corrupt Vice President, Chester Arthur, ascended to the highest office in the land after a ...

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 ...

America's foremost heroes are cowboys, soldiers, and innovators. They imposed order on the Wild West. They showed courage on countless battlefields and saved civilization in the Second World War ...

Americans love to be outraged. Our identity is endowed with a consistent distrust, if not vitriolic animosity, towards both government and the conditions detrimental to everyday life which the governm ...

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, the guns went quiet. November 11 began as silence, not spectacle--but with ears still ringing from years of constant barrages. What we first called Armis ...