Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. - Pudd'nhead Wilson (Mark Twain) There is talk of reform in the air. Ha...

It can be well nigh impossible to undo a bad bargain. Slavery was a bad bargain in 1787/1789. It took three quarters of a century and the ...

December 31, 1942. The Japanese military high command decides to evacuate forces from Guadalcanal. It will be a complex and challenging unde...

December, 1942, the US Navy's force of aircraft carriers was depleted. Of the seven carriers in service at the time of Pearl Harbor, onl...

On the home front in the US, women were tending their victory gardens, saving tin cans, riveting aircraft together and such like. In the U.K...

My father left home in February, 1942. He had just returned to Tallahassee from the Carolina Maneuvers on December 5, 1941, two days before ...

In former times, across much of America, the expected greeting on Christmas morning was "Christmas Gift!" This was true especially...

I'm always a little uneasy when I hear young soldiers talking about "good guys" and "bad guys." How, I wonder, do th...