Tag: History

President Obama delivers a statement on August 9 about ongoing U.S. activity in northern Iraq. Obama spoke before traveling to Martha's Vineyard for a two-week vacation. (Getty images / Chip Somodevilla)

Obama and the ‘wrong side of history’

Mona Charen · August 22, 2014 9:14 pm

President Obama sits in a golf cart while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Thursday. Obama is vacationing on the island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Obama, realist or defeatist?

Brian Hughes · August 22, 2014 5:00 am

Michigan national guardsmen stood at the ready as firemen battled one of the numerous blazes in a riot-torn district of Detroit in July 1967. (AP Photo)

Ferguson: Not nearly as daunting as the 1960s riots

Michael Barone · August 21, 2014 12:16 am

Holocaust Museum finds site for archive facility

Holocaust Museum finds site for archive facility

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 4:13 pm

Casual Podcast: Guided Torture

TWS Podcast · August 14, 2014 8:05 pm

Civil War-era cannon balls detonated in NY quarry

Civil War-era cannon balls detonated in NY quarry

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 3:37 pm

Why America Fought

David Adesnik · August 11, 2014 4:00 am

Georg Ludwig, installed as King George I, spoke no English and communicated with ministers in French, the language of European courts. He had shut his wife up in a German castle and brought over two mistresses, one fat and one skinny, and gave them titles of nobility. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Three hundred years later, Americans owe a debt to King George I

Michael Barone · August 10, 2014 9:00 pm

President Richard Nixon points to the transcripts of the White House tapes after he announced during a nationally-televised speech that he would turn over the transcripts to House impeachment investigators. (AP)

Historians will be kicking Richard Nixon’s legacy around for another 40 years

Cal Thomas · August 6, 2014 9:00 pm

John Quincy Adams was considered one of America's most intellectual presidents, but was neither successful nor happy in office. (iStock)

Intellectual hubris hampers presidential geniuses

Noemie Emery · August 5, 2014 10:31 pm

Veteran, 99, honored for leading band during WWII

Veteran, 99, honored for leading band during WWII

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2014 10:11 am

In this July 28, 2014, photo, Sok Sambour, 25, works as a receptionist at a hotel after graduating from accounting school. Her parents told her about that era, including exactly how long the Khmer Rouge rule lasted: three years, eight months and 20 days. An elderly neighbor told her that just catching a fish to eat was enough to be accused of betrayal and face almost certain execution. A U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal will deliver a verdict this coming Thursday in the trial of the two top leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge, whose extremist policies in the late 1970s are blamed for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians though starvation, medical neglect, overwork and execution. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Justice delayed is pondered in Cambodia

Sopheng Cheang · August 2, 2014 6:29 am