Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing
In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war
Hot Issues in 1918 Midterm Election Roil U.S. Politics Today
Wilson's war was almost over and women's suffrage was near, but there was a pandemic and the country was polarized over Prohibition
George Washington’s Last Hours, Remembered As Heroic, Were Certainly Hellish
Despite intense suffering, the former president faced death with courage and strength of character
‘Fears of a Setting Sun’ Review: How Founders Lost Faith in American Experiment
Of the opening night cast, only James Madison maintained confidence in the success of the new nation
‘Nuclear Folly’ Review: When the Superpowers Nearly Started World War III
A new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis distills 60 years of official and secret narratives about the world's scariest moment
‘Shooting Midnight Cowboy’ Review: Behind The Scenes of Hollywood’s Famous Rhinestone Bromance
Midnight Cowboy: The best film that should never have been made
‘Philip Roth: A Biography’ Review: A Postmortem Defense of an Irascible Author
Blake Bailey demonstrates that it's not always prudent to get the last word, even from the grave
Egotistic Brit General Turned the World Upside Down at Yorktown
The Americans won because the King's best strategist guessed wrong about where Washington and his allies would fight
Maine’s Greatest War Hero Faces Down Another Insurrection
When political parties' fight for power turns violent, the only man capable of restoring order was the defender of Little Round Top
‘White House Designer and Builder James Hoban’ Celebrates the Son of Eire Who Built America’s Most Famous House
A Kilkenny farmer's son executed America's most revered neoclassical building and rebuilt it after British invasion
The Supreme Court Decision That Changed America: Brown v. Board of Education
Finally, the justices overturned Jim Crow, tossing out Plessy v. Ferguson 'separate but equal' standard
Harley Sadler, Cowboy Clown and King of the Texas Tent Show
On the road year-round, he brought clean-cut entertainment and small-town spectacle to burgs up and down the Lone Star State
Fearless Radicals Turned the Quakers From Advocates of Slavery to Fervent Abolitionists
It took a century and a half and the tireless work of dissenting Friends to create the first White-dominated antislavery movement
Elizabeth Keckly: The Black Woman Who Became a Part of the Lincoln Family
Mary Todd Lincoln's closest confidante was a seamstress born in slavery
‘Nuking the Moon’ Takes a Fascinating Look at Military Flops and Doomed Schemes
History often recounts successful covert actions, but historian Vince Houghton spins a new perspective—failed plots built on the ridiculous
Perspectives of Famous Spanish Explorers Unfold in ‘Conquistador Voices’
Drawing on his own translations, author Kevin H. Siepel chronicles the escapades of famous Spanish Colonizers.
