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Getting to E Pluribus Unum 3 Jul 2013 | 02:30 pm
The expressive beauty of E Pluribus Unum as an American ideal arrived with the slow resolution of the founders’ essential tension. The members of the Continental Congress acted out the drama of auton...
The Civil War in 1863: Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Chattanooga 1 Jul 2013 | 02:30 pm
In the middle of 1863, Republican fortunes looked bleak as the Democratic-led peace movement gained strength. The primary reason was the Union’s apparent lack of military progress in subduing the Con...
Eye For An Eye 28 Jun 2013 | 02:50 pm
When Dewey Andreas uncovers the identity of a mole embedded at a high level in Israel’s Mossad, it triggers a larger, more dangerous plot. The mole was the most important asset of Chinese Intelligence...
Kennedy, Berlin and Reshaping the Cold War 26 Jun 2013 | 03:13 pm
June 26, 1963—Kennedy delivered perhaps the most famous speech of his life: a brief address in Berlin outdoors near the now famous Wall. An estimated two-thirds of the population of West Berlin poure...
The Rise of Rosie the Riveter and Her Sisters 24 Jun 2013 | 04:06 pm
Executive Order 8802 had banned discrimination in defense employment based on race, color, religion, or creed—but not sex. Women were the one group not protected by Washington. Yet they would gain the...
World War Z 21 Jun 2013 | 07:29 pm
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voic...
The Struggle for Cherbourg 19 Jun 2013 | 10:59 pm
By June 18, 314,514 troops, 41,000 vehicles, and 116,000 tons of supplies had been landed over the American beaches. But at the stroke of midnight on June 19 a powerful Channel storm, the worst in mor...
Jefferson Davis and the Creation of the Modern United States Capitol 17 Jun 2013 | 11:10 pm
CP Note: The history of the modern United States Capitol, the iconic seat of the U.S. government, is also the history of America’s most tumultuous years. As the majestic new building rose above Washin...
The Afrika Reich 14 Jun 2013 | 10:07 pm
Africa, 1952. More than a decade has passed since Britain’s humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to the war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler. The swastika flies from the Sahara to th...
Grant’s Grand Campaign to End the War 12 Jun 2013 | 08:05 pm
Lee worried about being too fond of war. Grant practiced total war as the best way to end it quickly. He put in motion an aggressive plan that would unleash warfare at its most terrible throughout the...
