That night, Truman wrote in his diary:
“I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets...
Lee’s invasion had been stopped. His grand gamble to influence the midterm elections had failed. Northern morale,...
Despite its devastation and horror, the attack on Pearl Harbor had fallen short. Midway was to be...
Every December, as twinkling lights adorn rooftops and the scent of pine fills living rooms, one black-and-white...
When war broke out in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged that the United States would remain neutral....
War correspondents were eyewitnesses to the many perils of reporting live from the front lines. They...
A closer look at Theodore Roosevelt’s contradictions, from San Juan Hill and the Panama Canal to conservation,...
In 1941, and just before the U.S. entered the fight, most of Europe had already surrendered to...
The potential of the film industry in the early 1900's was limitless. Filmmakers became powerful, because their...
Some historians suggest that Hoover transformed the FBI into his own image. The rise of the FBI...