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Wordsmith Noah Webster teamed with George Washington to unify a fragmented young nation. The morning of Friday, May 20, 1785, was bright and sunny, though there was a slight chill in the air. In the early afternoon, just as the mercury hit 68 degrees, the brisk southerly wind began to calm down. But not so …
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Valor: Broadway’s Fighting PriestLt. Col. Francis P. Duffy U.S. Army DSC, DSM, Légion d’honneur, Croix de guerre France, 1918 Only two men are honored with life-sized statues in New York’s Times Square, epicenter … Read MoreAct of War: Hijacking of the USS PuebloNorth Korea’s 1968 hijacking of USS Pueblo was part of a long-standing pattern of risky military adventurism. On the afternoon of Jan. 23, 1968, an emergency message reached the ai… Read MoreNapoléon’s Final TriumphAt Wagram in 1809, Bonaparte’s Grand Armée outsmarted, outmaneuvered, outfought and outguessed the Austrian army. In the summer of 1808, news of the Battle of Bailén and the humili… Read MoreThieves Among Honor: Counterfeit VeteransIt was a sweet assignment right up my writing alley: A narrative about the D-Day invasion to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Allied attack that marked the beginning of the … Read MoreWhat We Learned: from the Siege of SarajevoThe Bosnian capital of Sarajevo was the site of the most prominent siege of the Balkan wars that attended Yugoslavia’s disintegration in the early 1990s. On April 6, 1992, Serb for… Read More
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