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Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back on the 1957 space shot heard ’round the world: the Soviet...

French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...

The Southeast Asian country of the Philippines became an American colony in 1898. Today it is a key ally in the Indo-Pacific. Geoff Babb, military his...

In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...

Military historian and Civil War authority Angela M. Riotto looks back on the pivotal Union victory at Vicksburg in 1863 – finally ac...

Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts a critical juncture in the Civil War: the...

In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh vie...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...