Category: History

Today marks the 61 anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, and the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. And damned few of those members of …

I recently had an e-mail exchange with a reader who was a smidgen disappointed with something I wrote. I won't go into the particulars, but one thing that came …

The big meme going around in liberal circles is to highlight Pope Benedict XVI's experiences in the waning days of World War II. Now, it's truly a novel experience …

Unless you're planning on majoring in the classics, news of the discovery of a method to decode previously unreadable texts from early A.D. centuries raises the possibility of a …

Stephen Green over at VodkaPundit has a post Photoblogging - Since 1914 about a collection of color photos from "The World's War" as they called it back then. (WWI) …

On February 16, 1945, the United States Navy and Marine Corps began a three-day bombardment of the Japanese stronghold island of Iwo Jima. On February 23, the American flag …

Ronald Reagan would have been 94 years-old today. Trey Jackson has spent several days compiling a link rich Reagan tribute. Check it out....

Only his own words do justice in honoring him. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Paper Project at Stanford University is the best place to browse his speeches and sermons....

From The Papers of George Washington: The Thanksgiving Proclamation By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation. Whereas it is the...

What where you doing when you heard about O.J.'s infamous slow speed chase? Share your story. Update: Did you know there are transcipts of the cell phone conversations between...