History

In the agony of trench warfare and no man’s land, the sound of a skitter and a wet nose —…

Henry Clay, nicknamed the Star of the West and the Great Compromiser, served as Speaker of the U.S. House of…

The Asiatic-Pacific Theater in World War II culminated with a grueling, bloody amphibious campaign to capture one Japanese-held seabound stronghold…

“The ‘Tondelayo’ was being knocked about the sky … climbing, diving and making corkscrew patterns in a crazy choreography designed…

In one of the most outstanding memoirs that this reviewer has had the privilege of reading, retired U.S. Army Col.…

Probably no other aircraft from World War II are as easily recognized as the shark-mouthed Curtiss P-40s flown by the…

A gloomy and tragic scene—one with which the inhabitants of the oft-contested city of Winchester, Va., were unfortunately all too familiar—unfolded…

On June 6, 1944, over 160,000 Allied troops were sent to cross the English Channel onto the beaches of Normandy,…

The lyrics to America’s most famous marching song of the Civil War were written when their author was half-asleep and…

On June 2, 1967, with Wing Commander Colonel Robert Scott away, Colonel Jacksel “Jack” Broughton was serving as acting commander…