The Calm Before Desert Storm
Two months before the Gulf War began in 1991, President George H. W. Bush greeted U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia
Hamilton Takes Command
In 1775, the 20-year-old Alexander Hamilton took up arms to fight the British
Happy Trails
As freshly carved toys or treasured heirlooms, well-bred rocking horses ride high in the affections of kids and collectors alike
Founding Fathers and Slaveholders
To what degree do the attitudes of Washington and Jefferson toward slavery diminish their achievements?
Passions
Nuts about history and bonkers for baseball
Pieces of History
Raised from the deep, the Monitor’s turret reveals a bounty of new details about the ship’s violent end
Covert Force
Hundreds of women fought in the civil war disguised as men
California Scheming
Los Angeles’ insatiable thirst for water, which drained the Owens Valley, has ruined lives, shaped the city’s politics and provoked ongoing controversy
The Old Man of Olduvai Gorge
Irrepressible Louis Leakey, patriarch of the fossil-hunting family, championed the search for human origins in Africa, attracting criticism and praise
Learning from the Missile Crisis
What Really Happened on Those Thirteen Fateful Days in October
Uncommon Valor
When two Naval officers entered the inferno of the Pentagon’s west flank to search for survivors, they put their own lives on the line
Macho in Miniature
For nearly 40 years, G.I. Joe has been on America’s front lines in toy boxes from coast to coast
They Turned the Tide
Members of the Doolittle Raiders celebrate the 60th anniversary of the U.S. answer to pearl harbor
Joyous View
A biographer and his subject, William Clark, meet in St. Louis
Iron Will
While William Clark is best known for the expedition he made with Meriwether Lewis, his later life was as historic and more consequential
Chilly Reception
Dr. John Gorrie found the competition all fired up when he tried to market his ice-making machine
A Pantheon After All
There’s no more fitting venue for American initiative and American art than the old Patent Office building
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