I’m gonna make race the basis of politics in this state, and I’m gonna make it the basis of politics in this country. Later, at his inaugural, he proclaimed, I have stood where once Jefferson Davis st...
Cole Younger led eight men into Russellville, Kentucky, on May 20, 1868, and rode out with exactly $9,035.92. As the gang made its escape, shooting into the air to discourage gawkers, one member shot...
All great philosophers, even the atheists, realized that one of the essential attributes of a civilized people is a belief that good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. In
A fiery horse, with a speed of light—a cloud of dust, a hearty laugh, The Lone Ranger is perhaps the most attractive figure ever to come out of the West.
The Secret Service is now saying that Hinckley could have been stopped. All it would have taken was for Delahanty and the other Metro Police officers on the rope line to continue facing the crowd as R...
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Yet the informality belies the truth: everyone, with the exception of Adolf Hitler, is terrified. You felt it to the point of physical illness, one German officer will later write. Nothing was authent...
To replace this loss of spirituality, millions of Europeans have embraced the secular concept of relativism. According to this way of thinking, there is no absolute truth, no certain right and wrong....
The end of the world is no time to keep the American people uninformed.
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...
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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George Shultz, who will one day serve as Reagan’s secretary of state, will call this the most important foreign policy decision Reagan has ever made.
Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe, in reference
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...
Ask not what your country can do for you, he commands, his voice rising to deliver the defining sentence, but what you can do for your country.