In the spring of 1861, the United States of America split into two hostile countries—the United States and the new Confederate States of America. The two...
When Christopher Columbus made his plans to sail westward across the Atlantic, he first set off across Europe to find sponsors. His brother Bartholomew went to the court of the English King Henry VII (who turned him down,...
We should not accept social life as it has “trickled down to us,” the young journalist Walter Lippmann wrote soon after the twentieth century began. “We have to deal with it deliberately, devise its...
Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial figures to emerge from the Cold War. He participated as a soldier, scholar, and statesman in many of the most significant policy debates of the period. He acted as an intellectual,...
New Orleans is a city built in a location that was by any measure a mistake.North American settlers needed a way to import and export goods via the Mississippi River, so a city was...