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Historians and medical researchers usually hesitate to diagnose historical figures with disabilities and disorders post hoc, but contemporary understanding of human behavior can actually inform our analysis of various Civil … Read More
American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford, by Roland De Wolk, University of California Press, Oakland, 2019, $34.95 Leland Stanford was the best known of the “Big Four” Central … Read More
The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China by Jack Samson, Lyons Press, Guilford, Conn., 2005, $16.95. The Flying Tiger was … Read More
The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia and Political Warfare—1945–2020, by Tim Weiner, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2020, $29.99 Didn’t we beat the Russians in 1989? Apparently not, argues … Read More
It’s hard for those of us in the modern era to grasp the true horror of the Chernobyl disaster. Even a deep dive into the Chernobyl meltdown timeline can only … Read More
Dwight Hal Johnson had no dreams of being a hero. In his youth, the large, strapping boy had a fighter’s body but a peaceful spirit. Johnson grew up in the … Read More
When Dorothy Schmidt Cole joined the Marine Corps in July 1943, she wasn’t thinking about the impact her service would have on the Corps or on generations of women to … Read More
Beginning Aug. 4, 1959, the CIA conducted a series of U-2 missions over North Vietnam that provided the first confirmed evidence of the communist country’s airfield construction and other military … Read More
An old vessel and its new captain and crew of reservists encountered the enemy off Oahu in the crucial minutes before the Pearl Harbor attack. With the dawn of December … Read More
A letter arranging one last secret rendezvous casts new light on the star-crossed love of Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Rutherfurd. Marked “Personal & Private,” the letter arrived at President Franklin … Read More
