World History

By Stephen R. Brown The bull Inter Caetera and several other bulls from the same era…
By Dirk Vandewalle Libya’s Revolution in Perspective 1969–2000 The September 1, 1969 coup in Libya that brought…
By Callie Oettinger In his April 14, 1986 address to the nation on the United States Air…
By Callie Oettinger October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber killed 241 Marines in Beirut. Just a…
By Don Malarkey Chapter 12 “WHAT’S A GUY GOTTA DO TO DIE?” Bastogne December 19, 1944–January…
By Steven Saylor My previous novel Roma followed the fortunes of a single family through the…
My previous novel Roma followed the fortunes of a single family through the first thousand years…
By Robert Barker The 3d Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmoble) arrived in Qui Nhon, RVN on September…

World History

The Centennial Fire

by Chris Wimmer

The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to November…

War and Reconciliation

by Tom Clavin

Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and Iowa.…

The Rise of the Weimar Republic

by Susan Ronald

In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the Weimar…

Crary of the North…and South

by Tom Clavin

 It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the North…

Meet the White House Plumbers

by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh

by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO's new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story of…

A Long Journey Home

by Tom Clavin

During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to Hell,…

The Windsors at War

by Alexander Larman

When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that has become…

Old Houses of the West

by Sandra Dallas

Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest book,…

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