Jim Walsh

For 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Ru...

I came through and I shall return." - General Douglas MacArthurThose who had decoded and ...

“The failure to crush the Federal army in Pennsylvania in 1863, in the opinion of a...

The fur trade had its tensions, but for many years, traders and natives worked out their ...

With the golden glow of the candlelight kissing his cheeks, he hovered over a spirit mirr...

Though the importance of hats is easy to overlook, it was deadly serious in more ways tha...

The Eastern Theater of the Civil War saw the bloodiest and most famous battles, as well a...

There are countless examples of battles that take place in wars after a peace treaty is s...

On May 14, 1948, the British Mandate officially expired. That same day, the Jewish Nation...

In the last 50 years, life has been simplified by the awe-inspiring advancements that hav...

Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battle...

World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to ...

By the golden age of the mountain man in the mid-19th-century, there were perhaps only 3,...

The Metis people, later one of the three recognized aboriginal groups in Canada, were an ...

Given its importance, it’s somewhat surprising in retrospect that the Union managed...

During World War II, greatly increased engine power allowed these aircraft to slice throu...

Few people personified the advancements, abilities, and tactical adeptness of the Luftwaf...

The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become sy...

As Union commander George McClellan moved the Army of the Potomac up the Peninsula in ear...

The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most c...

Both Grant and Sherman shared the same theory of war: anything that might help the enemy...

By the close of 1864, Abraham Lincoln had been reelected, the Union army had taken Nashv...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was ...

The Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains th...

Thinking of Spain as a modern nation state today distorts the complicated reality that t...

The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren&rsqu...

In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centur...

At first, airplane improvements occurred in an ad hoc, almost accidental manner during Wo...

By the end of the Byzantine Empire’s existence, the old age had weakened both the ...

Although the Declaration of Independence is now considered one of the most important pol...

Throughout the 19th century, American settlers pushing across the Western frontier came ...

One of the most integral members of that criminal underworld was Arnold Rothstein, the a...

The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren&rsqu...

Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on...

Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured the American imaginat...

In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the succes...

The Danes have incorporated a system that prizes a balance between work and play, the con...