
‘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
A Kilkenny farmer's son executed America's most revered neoclassical building and rebuilt it after British invasion
In Mark Thompson's re-evaluation John Burgoyne emerges as an important architect of Britain’s victory over Napoléonic France
Mary Todd Lincoln's closest confidante was a seamstress born in slavery
Amid shifting political alliances of 17th century Scotland, fighting marquess James Graham morphed from Covenanter champion into defender of the Crown
Nurses who served in Vietnam gave much and received little
James Carl Nelson delivers an interesting yet imperfect account of the WWI American hero and the trials that befell him over the years
In his new book about the Lakota leader and his people Utley continues to plumb the depths of Western history
The Great Depression made a laughing stock of 'Great Engineer' Herbert Hoover's faith in efficiency
An interview with author and historian Dr. Moritz Föllmer sheds light on how the Nazis reshaped culture to engineer extremism, war and genocide
Co-authors Don Chaput and David D. de Haas recount the legendary Earps' last family gathering in turn-of-the-century southern California
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"
André flew combat medevac missions in northwest Vietnam, rescuing wounded soldiers, and even parachuted into the field to treat severe casualties
Drawing on Indian depredation claims from the National Archives, Jeff Broome chronicles five years of painful events on the frontier
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.
Dr. Sheldon Kushner and a team of other military doctors provided much-needed care to South Vietnamese civilians
George English resigned his commission, converted to Islam and joined an Egyptian campaign upriver to Nubia—but to what end?