The Halifax Explosion — Marking The 100th Anniversary Of One Of WW1’s Deadliest Disasters
“The explosion turned two square miles of this calm, postcard-pretty town into a nightmare of chaos, destruction, and death in a split second.” AT EXACTLY 9:04 A.M. on the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, the…
Gulf War 1941 — The Forgotten Allied Invasion of Iran
“The ensuing campaign would cost hundreds of lives, raise to the throne a future dictator and set the stage for the first real show down of the Cold War.” DURING THE LATE summer of 1941,…
The Crucible of Conflict – 10 Ways World War Two Forged Our Modern Age
“Countless innovations in science, medicine and social organization grew out of the conflict.” By Keith Lowe THE SECOND WORLD WAR was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. As armed forces swept from…
Machine Gun — How Hiram Maxim’s Deadly Invention Changed History
“Hilaire Belloc summed things up best in 1898’s The Modern Traveller when he wrote: ‘Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim gun, and they have not.’” By Sam Bocetta HIRAM MAXIM WAS a prolific American…
Back to the Future – What History Teaches Us About America’s Standoff With North Korea
“Can history teach us anything about the current standoff between Washington and Pyongyang? The answer is yes.” By Christopher Kelly THE FIRST, though unstated, rule of American foreign policy since World War Two has been…
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…
