The federal government once built 33 courthouses with extra courtrooms equivalent to nine more courthouses - entirely by accident.
Veterans Day is, properly speaking, an earlier thanksgiving, for sacrifices made after the United States became a country.
Too often, America ignores its veterans because their day follows so closely after the election. How to avoid this.
A new White House exhibit called The People's House, a project of the White House Historical Association, recently opened.
Witnessing a missile attack as a Navy brat in Tel Aviv, years before the Fourth Arab-Israel War made such attacks almost routine.
The Army Corps of Engineers built a dam in Oklahoma for $50 million, only to have the upstream river dry out, so the lake never formed.
The history of the Biden-Harris administration is one of repeated foreign policy failures that have made America less secure than ever.
Previewing the PBS miniseries Citizen Nation, an attempt to reawaken an appreciation for history and civics in America.
A little-noticed incident during the Korean War shows that General Douglas MacArthur might not have been as arrogant as supposed.
The National Science Foundation once spent $440,000 on research into online dating and how that affects its practitioners.