Gerrymandering has entered the news again. It does so at least every 10 years, in the national context, and more…
This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities…
In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the origins of the First World War, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman wrote…
At 12:42 p.m. on July 20 of 1944, the solid oak table in Adolf Hitler’s “Wolf’s Lair” erupted into splinters….
J. Rufus Wallingford, a financial speculator in a 1911 novel by George Randolph Chester, of whom it was said “he…
Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at…
The leading narrative about the Black Hills, a range stretching across the border of South Dakota and Wyoming, most famous…
Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no…
(Editor’s Note: As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas…
