In his vivid new book "Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made," award-winning historian Richard Rhodes recounts the war through the breakthroughs—military, cultural, medical and more—that took center stage in the bloody worldwide war that followed.
FDR’s Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of Japanese, also allowed the Roosevelt administration to intern German and Italian immigrants and their American-born children.
Selma is worth seeing, but does the director’s decision to falsely claim that LBJ conspired with J. Edgar Hoover against King encourage truth-twisting?
If you could have dinner with any three people (dead or alive), who would you choose and why? "Washington, Lincoln, and FDR to discuss wartime leadership."
“For decades, polio terrified America, killing and crippling at random. It lurked anywhere, came on as easily as a cold. Any fever, any stiff neck or sore throat caused hysteria.”
