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Rogosin argues that the integration of black baseball players into the major leagues was a forerunner of the civil rights movement.

World War I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, ending that deadly conflict, occurred just over one hundred years ago. For many tod

Edward Mandell House was a erudite, accomplished man who exercised tremendous influence on U.S. politics and world diplomacy in the first tw

August 25 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris.

In the closing days of the First World War President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly agreed to send several thousand U.S. soldiers to Russia

I had a hard time putting down John Dos Passos journalistic work Tour of Duty.

This history of the little-known battle to free Manila from Japanese occupation in early 1945 is little known among the American public.

Eugene Sledge’s “With the Old Breed,” is a visceral account of his days island hopping across the Pacific as a U.S. Marine in 1944-45.

Benn Steil wrote this timely piece about the magnanimous, yet strategically astute, European Recovery Program, known popularly as the...

Well researched and well-written account of the attempt by Harry Truman to bring peace to China in the years after WWII. Unable to...

I make no claim to know all of the best novels that have been made into films. To do so would be as spurious a claim as saying I’ve read...

While recently watching the Netflix series “The Crown” I was delighted to see a segment where Queen Elizabeth, in a Christmas address to...

It's exciting to appear in this month's Community + Wellness Issue of Tribeza magazine featuring Virginia Cumberbatch and Meagan Harding...

A painter that I greatly admire is Tom Lea, a native Texan who lived all his life in El Paso.

Tomorrow will mark the 121st game between Army and Navy on the gridiron. They have met every year since 1890, apart from two separate...

This weekend will see the renewal of a heated college football rivalry dating back to 1894. The Texas Longhorns travel to Fayetteville to...

It is a book that leads the reader down a path leading to closed doors and blind alleys.

In his history The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from The Boston Globe recounts the story

James Carter, an historian at St. Joseph’s University, takes us into the horse racing world of antebellum Shanghai...

I wrote recently in my novel Above the Water, "the most dangerous times during a war are at the end. That is when the discipline that has...