Many are convinced that the Second World War will be the war to end all wars, but Patton knows better. As a reminder to himself that war is inevitable, he has been reading Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars...
Most people live their lives as if the end were always years away. They measure their days in love, laughter, accomplishment, and loss. There are moments of sunshine and storm. There are schedules, ph...
No drunken, saddened, addled, enraged citizens of Richmond so much as attacks Lincoln with their fists.
Of the 9,600,000 Jews who lived in Nazi-dominated Europe, 60 percent are authoritatively estimated to have perished. Five million seven hundred thousand Jews are missing from the countries in which th...
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.
Outside Milan, the couple visits the gas station where Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress were hanged by an angry mob.
Reagan’s victory notwithstanding, the landslide loss by Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election makes it abundantly clear that conservative Republican values are falling out of fashion.
Ronald Reagan is directly responsible for initiating the fame of Marilyn Monroe.
Diplomacy by balance of fear.
But Hitler is not tranquil. His right eardrum was ruptured in the bomb blast during the assassination attempt and has only recently stopped bleeding. That same blast hurled him to a concrete floor, br...
But the question remains: How accurate—if at all—was Edwards’s portrayal? Was there, in reality, any political motivation behind James’s life of crime, or was he simply a bad guy who served a symbolic...
Churchill is a creature of habit, rising each morning at 7:30 in his official residence at 10 Downing Street, just a half mile up the road from the Houses of Parliament. He works in bed until 11:00, w...
Churchill understands this harsh political reality. And though he won't admit it to Stalin, both men know that England has already seen its global power seriously diminished...Even now, as Churchill a...
The term head, in reference to a toilet, comes from the special board extending from the beak head of the ship (the pointed bow) out over the ocean for passengers to use as a communal toilet. The wind...
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Eisenhower’s greatest strength and his greatest weakness: compromise. He wants to make everyone happy, and believes that public opinion wins wars. Very often it seems Eisenhower would rather make the...
He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.
A touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility.
In Moscow, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, fearing that Kennedy’s popularity would lead to an erosion of support in East Berlin, quickly flew to that divided city to reassert his nation’s claims. He...
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