09/02/2020 - 12:49
President Donald Trump says that he is "your president of law and order," a term once associated with the 37th president, Richard Nixon. At the same time, news articles mention another phrase associated with Nixon: the Southern Strategy.
07/23/2020 - 07:01
It is strange, to say the least, to name an army fort for a soldier who committed treason.
07/06/2020 - 08:28
Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War and was the 18th president of the United States. But as communities reevaluate who belongs -- and doesn't belong -- on municipal monuments, some are having second thoughts about Grant.
06/17/2020 - 22:00
Not everyone has heard of Juneteenth, but it is an important historical milestone marking the day in 1865 that slaves in Texas learned they were free.
06/02/2020 - 22:02
President Donald Trump used a little known law this week to pit the military against protesters in Washington, D.C. It's called the Insurrection Act of 1807.
05/19/2020 - 21:59
President Donald Trump raised eyebrows by firing State Department Inspector General
Steve Linick on Friday, May 15.
05/10/2020 - 21:48
Only one person has served both as president of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court: William Howard Taft.
04/21/2020 - 23:00
A century ago, people around the world fought to survive a deadly illness: the influenza pandemic of 1918.
03/29/2020 - 18:36
A 70-year-old law could help the country navigate a global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. It is called the Defense Production Act of 1950.
02/16/2020 - 18:32
It stands to reason that army equipment of today is far more sophisticated than, say, the equipment of World War I. But there is an exception.
