Why Eisenhower believed in the Domino Theory
Turns out, countries might be a lot like dominoes. If you tip one over, they all topple. President Eisenhower may have sat playing with dominoes as he pondered the dangers…
Turns out, countries might be a lot like dominoes. If you tip one over, they all topple. President Eisenhower may have sat playing with dominoes as he pondered the dangers…
In November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot through the head while motorcading through the streets of Dallas, Texas. The months, years, and decades that followed brought on a…
Every time I sit to think about the events of 9/11 and I go back to the beginning of that day, what first comes to mind is what a beautiful…
On March 24, 1977, the United States and Cuba engaged in direct negotiations for the first time since 1961. During the escalation of the Cold War in the 50s and…
John F. Kennedy was born into privilege, graduated from Harvard, and did not have to fight in World War II, but he did — he insisted.
President John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by a shot fired from the Texas book depository while on an official visit to Dallas Texas in 1963. His assassin was Marine…
Arlington National Cemetery holds over 300,000 United States veterans. Veterans from every US war or conflict since the Revolutionary War lie here. Founded in 1866, this cemetery is the largest…
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. The president, his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, and Texas Governor John Connally were traveling in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas, amidst…
He’s credited with saving the world. Avoiding a nuclear attack and a full-out torpedo launch was possible thanks to the cool-headedness of one soldier, Russian Vasili Aleksandrovich Arkhipov, who served…
Most people know the basic history of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy — that a former Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald, who had briefly defected to the Soviet Union, fired the sho…