US Marines launched a scathing attack on Iwo Jima island during World War II. Capturing the island, about eight kilometres ...

More than 7,000 Marines were killed and 20,000 wounded during the historic battle from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, when ...

Ms. Byron, who was elected after the death of her husband, would become one of the first women in Congress to carve out a prominent role on the Armed Services Committee.

Dec. 7, 1941 – that the Japanese attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Although America learned of the attack via radio ...

Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin ... World War II. But he also credited the New Deal ...

Many of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Dennis Quaid, Anthony Hopkins and Josh Brolin, have played former presidents in ...

13. "A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted—in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist ...

The speech was most remarkable for its repudiation ... Emancipation Act) and President Roosevelt (World War II). The mere hint of that megalomania is not just fiendish, it is also inflammatory.

Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...

In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

On Monday, Oct. 6, 1952, the private train "Eisenhower Express," carrying Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie, rolled ...

Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano ... Freedoms” speech on the eve of our involvement in World War II. FDR foreshadowed what ...