The “only man who could have made things work was Ike,” Churchill’s chief of staff, Lieutenant General Hastings Ismay, said after the war....

Sir Arthur Bryant, The Great Duke (Wellington) New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1972, 28-29 If success in his chosen professio...

 THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James...

 September 1, 1939, was the first day of a war that would last for 2,174 days, and it brought the first dead in a war that would claim an av...

I submit to you, my fellow-citizens, these considerations, in full confidence that the good sense which has so often marked your decisions w...

Straw and rags muffled gun wheels and horses’ hooves as twenty German divisions lumbered into their final assembly areas on Friday night, D...

Marian Anderson Seventy-five years ago, on April 9, 1939, [Easter Sunday], as Hitler’s troops advanced in Europe and the Depression took its...