President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to release all the documents pertaining to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963...

The infamous "red speech" in Philadelphia, September 2022 Before I render a final grade for Joseph Robinette Biden's term as p...

I'm going to preface the remainder of this post by saying something which I probably didn't do my best to get across in this piece. ...

The past few days will go down in history.  The comparison I keep hearing is that "this is our Katrina" and that's not inaccur...

So help me, I'm going to show this cartoon from almost eighty years ago until I'm blue in the face, if that's what it takes to s...

 As my father said, when President Reagan was shot the day before my seventh birthday: "Pay attention son, this is history."      

  Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on th...

Today is the 120th anniversary of the first powered air flight, by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk on the  Outer Banks of North Carolina. ...

Doom , arguably the most installed piece of software in the history of anything, today celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its release. ...

See this?  It's an enlargement.  The originals are about the size of modern printed currency...   I first saw this at a Boy Scout campo...

Ruins of the Capitol from the video game Fallout 3 It's been several hours since some semblance of a historical event transpired here in...

Found something last night while doing historical research.  It absolutely floored me to read this passage.  It could be referring to the Am...

  Kindly allow me to boil down certain recent events into something that can be readily grasped. And I say this as someone who has never vo...

The scene from the excellent HBO miniseries John Adams  where Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the delegates vote ...

Seventy-nine years ago today. That's a still from the animated special What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?   It was the follow-up to th...

It was this day, March the 12 th , thirty years ago. I was eighteen, taking first year classes at the local community college.   I worked p...

Sigh... I shouldn't have to make this post.  But as it seems how EVERYTHING today is supposed to be qualified, quantified, factionalized...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine may go down as the textbook example of all the wrong ways to try to take over a neighboring country.  I...

The following post isn't going to endear me to some people.  Indeed, I removed it for awhile after it drew fire from some who I greatly ...

 Dad used to tell me that he didn't want to study our family tree too much.  "There's going to be someone there who wore a rope...