He’s in Germany looking for clues about the life and death of his great-aunt Lily, something of a palimpsest herself in the fabric of the Holmans’ family life on the other side of the world. She ...

The SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.2 (around 2,100 miles per hour)—lightyears faster than anything the Soviet Union could throw at ...

It was important in Cold War America to prove that it was a Christian nation, so a new story was added to the American ...

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Michael Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, during a deployment as a Green Beret to ...

My assumption that humanist academics were all on the left was foolish, of course. But so was my defeatist certainty that ...

Keep your eyes open and, as in the new book “The JFK Conspiracy” by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, don’t let your attention split off. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was already a hero when he ran for ...

This week, we take our traveling book club up to Bellevue, Iowa. Check out the book the library's director said is popular ...

Over 35 years ago now, as the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of collapse and President George H.W. Bush worked to secure ...

Israel’s invasion of Gaza in 2023 came six days after Hamas murdered 1200 Israelis, many attending a music concert near the ...

Hal Brands is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a senior fellow at the ...

Yet our understanding of that journey, the "cold chain" process, is a little-understood part of our food supply. A weekly rummage through essential cultural ingredients for a good life ...