HISTORY

There were terms for rich young women like Mary Jayne Gold in the United States of the 1930s. Newspapers routinely derided her type as “Lisping Lulus” or “Nice Nellies,” the perfect companions...

Resident Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was a prominent member of the 20th-century arts colony that emerged around Taos. Taos, New Mexico, got its name from a phrase in the indigenous Tiwa language meaning...

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House presents a challenge for writers that other battles don’t. For 24 hours, soldiers from the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia engaged...

Vietnam has fought numerous invasions over the past two millennia, usually against China or whoever happened to have conquered China, including the formidable, ruthless Mongols. Whenever they could not defeat the invaders,...

Drowned in a storm: Capt. Arthur Hood (1755–1775)  Three Hood brothers (Arthur, Alexander, and Samuel) all served in the Royal Navy in the latter half of the 18th century. They were the...

In December 1862, just more than 5,000 people lived in Fredericksburg, Virginia, including John Innis and his wife, Martha. Their small frame house, built in stages between 1856 and 1861, actually belonged...

Ancient Rome was blessed with many great military leaders over its long, tumultuous and often glorious history. In the 1st century BC in particular the republic had more than its fair share...

At sunset on March 9, 1945, Major General Curtis E. LeMay watched the first of more than 300 bombers lift off from Guam’s crushed coral runway for a midnight strike on Tokyo...

We have nothing to hide. That’s the basis for the Biden administration’s decree Thursday for the National Archives to release a cache of 13,173 documents related to the assassination of President John...

Nothing quite sparks debate like James Cameron’s “Avatar” film franchise. Although known substantially less for its storytelling than for its signature giant blue cat people, known as the Na’vi, the film series...