No historian should be able to answer the question on good history without a degree of trepidation, ambivalence, and ...

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This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

But we have had a president “solve” a war — and win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so. When Theodore Roosevelt accomplished ...

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Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

On the morning of Oct. 10, 1983, in the rocky hills of Camp David, President Ronald Reagan was treated to an early screening of one of the year’s most anticipated films, “The Day After,” a two-hour ...

The French 75 is an undeniably popular cocktail choice, but this iconic beverage has a surprisingly dark story behind its seemingly simple moniker.

Letters written on Aug. 15, 1916, by two Australian soldiers serving in France during World War I have been discovered more than a century later. One of the letter-writers survived the war; the other ...