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Selected by Jonathan Horn, the author, most recently, of “The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic ...
Eighty years ago, in the final days of World War II, my great-grandfather, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, walked into a place that ...
Stanley Welch reflected on his time in World War II, living in London during the Blitz, and his encounter with former US ...
What are we fighting for? Don’t ask me. I don’t give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam.” — Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock (1969) Fifty years ago today ( ...
These remarks by President Dwight David Eisenhower at the Dartmouth College commencement exercises in Hanover, New Hampshire ...
A recent poll found President Donald Trump's first quarter approval rating at 45%, far below every other post-World War II US ...
Tuesday marks President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office during his second term. This early period of a president’s term is ...
"It is infrequent when we can commemorate the 80th anniversary of two significant events in American history, separated by ...
In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of World War II ... on to US General Dwight Eisenhower and contained a ...
In coming to grips with the second term of President Donald Trump, many of us made the mistake of assuming — hoping? — that he was just “trash-talking” the world, like a boxer needling his opponents ...
George Washington (Revolutionary War), Andrew Jackson (War of 1812 ... Theodore Roosevelt (Spanish-American War), and Dwight Eisenhower (World War II) all came to national prominence for their ...