The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago last week was famously the “day which will live in infamy.”…

Herbert Hoover: A Life By Glen Jeansonne (New American Library, 455 pages, $28) Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the…

No matter who wins the 2016 election, the American political scene brings to mind Rome in the age of bad…

Washington History is full of surprises. Never have I, looking back on history, found it to go precisely as I…

My late friend Peter Hannaford believed, “If presidents are to be judged by their ratio of achievement to their stated…

Washington Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa Sunday. She was a celestial figure to many, for sweating away in Calcutta with…

An excerpt from Daniel Wattenberg’s new nonfiction novella, Decatur’s Wake: The Fateful Rivalry Behind the Lightning Defeat of Barbary Terror, available…

Tried by Fire: The Story of Christianity’s First Thousand Years William J. Bennett (Thomas Nelson, 496 pages, 32.99) For decades…

Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II By John C. McManus (NAL Caliber, 464 pages, $16 paperback)…