History

In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...

Gallagher has a lot of conversations with his platoon’s interpreter (“tarp”), a man his men call...

Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...

Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...

In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...

James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...

And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...