People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...
William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...
As President Donald Trump looks at ordering US Navy ships to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, for naval analysts and historians, there’s a distinct feeling of “been there, done that.” ...
Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History.” A ...
ABOUT twenty years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes in a letter to his friend Sir Frederick Pollock had something to say about Charles A. Beard’s Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. Beard, said ...
Costner on horseback as Hayes Ellison in Chapter 1 of Horizon Staff Writer Giddy up: Horizon: An American Saga, out in theaters on June 28, is a new Western set in the Civil War-era by Kevin Costner, ...
Elon Musk says he is fascinated by war and history and reads extensively on the subjects. Musk says he tries to do whatever is "most likely to ensure that the future is good for humanity." He also ...
It is remarkable that yet another American administration has, in the face of scant understanding of far-off societies, willfully overlooked the bitter lessons of history in trying to overthrow brutal ...
On the evening of February 21, 2022, three days before Russian forces began the largest land invasion on the European continent since World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an angry ...