I’m that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half horse, half alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning...
James Butler Hickok was the most famous gunslinger of the Old West; a man known to be reluctant to shoot, but when it became necessary, his draw was as quick as thought and his aim was always true.
Let ’em up easy.
No drunken, saddened, addled, enraged citizens of Richmond so much as attacks Lincoln with their fists.
No one embodied the spirit of the frontier more than Daniel Boone, who faced and defeated countless natural and man-made dangers to literally hand cut the trail west through the wilderness. He marched...
On September 6, 1819, he wrote: The Constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
Patton, at heart, is a simple man who wears his emotions on his sleeve. This makes him extremely poor at the sort of political posturing at which rivals such as Montgomery excel. The
Remember the Alamo was the battle cry that led Sam Houston’s troops to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto six weeks later—and Americans have never forgotten the sacrifices made there.
Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among
The Nazarene tells a parable about a wealthy landowner and his troublesome tenants. The summation is a line stating that the religious leaders will lose their authority and be replaced by others whose...
The Wehrmacht soldiers have the advantage of surprise and know this terrain far better than their enemies do. They slaughter the men of the Third Army where they lie hiding, killing them one by one. T...
The autumn air is chill and damp. As he does each morning at just about this time, Adolf Hitler emerges from the artificial light of his concrete bunker into the morning sun. He holds his two-year-old...
The general public had no love for either the banks or the railroads, which were controlled by fat cats in the North and the East who cared not at all for the troubles of the poor workingman. All Jess...
The mere thought that the fighting will soon end fills Patton with dread. Peace is going to be hell on me, he writes to his wife, Beatrice.
The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let...
Thousands of snapshots are taken of JFK that day. Many of them remain hanging in the pubs and homes of Galway.
Winston was in a self-described political wilderness for much of his career, and was considered out of touch with political reality, thanks to his criticism of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a time when f...
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for h...
And building his own home into the slope of a Nazarene hill. But the young Jesus is not long for this small town. The holiness and magnificence of Jerusalem call to him. He comes to know the smells an...
Baboon’s behind and filling his legs with wooden splinters as it ripped his
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