Category: People
The Heartthrob Assassin — How Women and Murder Went Hand-in-Hand for John Wilkes Booth
“Men admired him. Women found him irresistible. He had everything going for him. Until something festering inside him drove him to kill.” By E. Lawrence Abel ONE HUNDRED AND fifty-three years after John Wilkes Booth’s death, historians…
Demolition Man — Remembering Robert de La Rochefoucald’s Most Daring Wartime Mission
“He’d sabotaged rail lines and power stations across France, killed countless enemy soldiers, and even escaped an enemy firing squad. But behind his outward-facing élan, he was racked by secret doubts.” By Paul Kix ROBERT…
‘Above and Beyond’ – Navy Pilot Makes Daring Bid to Save Downed Flier from Korean Hillside
“Time was becoming critical. I decided to make a wheels-up landing, pull him out of the cockpit and wait for the helicopter.” By David Poyer ONE OF AMERICA’S most modest heroes died this month. Silver-haired…
The Bereaved — Grace Darling Seibold and America’s First ‘Gold Star Mothers’
“Many observers believed that the sheer number of grieving mothers gathered so dramatically in public would actually help foster peace.” By April Smith ON FEB. 7, 1930, FIRST LADY LOU HENRY HOOVER reached into a silver bowl…
The Rough Riders – Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Theodore Roosevelt’s Famous Volunteers
“They proved themselves to be as brave and steady in the heat of battle as the hardened veterans they fought alongside.” By Mark Lee Gardner THE THREE-AND-A-HALF MONTH Spanish American War is one of United…
The Flying Tigers — 12 Facts About America’s Legendary Volunteer Fighter Squadron
“The victories of these Americans over the rice paddies of Burma are comparable in character, if not in scope, with those won by the RAF over the hop fields of Kent in the Battle of…
