U.S. History - after 1945

The Korean War, at least from the American side, was a conflict operated on a proverbial shoestring budget. To be sure, the total defense bu...

At the end of 2013, many U.S. citizens learned that they were going to pay more income tax than ever before. Social Security, funded largely...

The various news media have presented a spectrum of understandings concerning Barack Obama. He mystifies both liberals and conservatives, bo...

In late 2002 and early 2003, intelligence agencies of not only the United States, but also of many other nations, obtained information revea...

Why are tensions and conflicts necessarily part of political life? If asked, the overwhelming majority of voters would certainly say that th...

The task of understanding exactly what happened on September 11, 2001 has gone on for a decade, and will go on long into the future. To be s...

The first Gulf War, as Operation Desert Storm is sometimes called, presents the historian with a good object for study, because it was limit...