‘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
Book Review: Wellington’s Favourite Engineer
In Mark Thompson's re-evaluation John Burgoyne emerges as an important architect of Britain’s victory over Napoléonic France
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
For Covenant and King: James Graham, Marquess of Montrose
Amid shifting political alliances of 17th century Scotland, fighting marquess James Graham morphed from Covenanter champion into defender of the Crown
Angels of the Battlefield: Nurses in Vietnam
Nurses who served in Vietnam gave much and received little
‘The York Patrol’ Book Review
James Carl Nelson delivers an interesting yet imperfect account of the WWI American hero and the trials that befell him over the years
Robert Utley: Revisting Sitting Bull
In his new book about the Lakota leader and his people Utley continues to plumb the depths of Western history
How One of the Smartest U.S. Presidents Crashed and Burned
The Great Depression made a laughing stock of 'Great Engineer' Herbert Hoover's faith in efficiency
How Hitler Created a “Culture of Destruction”
An interview with author and historian Dr. Moritz Föllmer sheds light on how the Nazis reshaped culture to engineer extremism, war and genocide
Book Review: The Earps Invade Southern California
Co-authors Don Chaput and David D. de Haas recount the legendary Earps' last family gathering in turn-of-the-century southern California
Nikita Khrushchev Details the Cuban Missile Crisis
In his memoir, excerpted in LIFE magazine in January 1971, Khrushchev writes that the 1962 crisis was a “triumph of Soviet foreign policy and a personal triumph"
Valérie André, the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat
André flew combat medevac missions in northwest Vietnam, rescuing wounded soldiers, and even parachuted into the field to treat severe casualties
Book Review: Indian Raids and Massacres
Drawing on Indian depredation claims from the National Archives, Jeff Broome chronicles five years of painful events on the frontier
Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee: ‘Do While You Can’
Charles McGee never thought much of flying until he started training at Tuskegee. When he finally left the U.S. Air Force, he had 30 years and three wars behind him.
A Surgeon’s Vietnam Story
Dr. Sheldon Kushner and a team of other military doctors provided much-needed care to South Vietnamese civilians
A U.S. Marine on the Nile
George English resigned his commission, converted to Islam and joined an Egyptian campaign upriver to Nubia—but to what end?
