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The singular image of six men heaving a flagpole into the sulfurous sky of Iwo Jima exists in the modern public consciousness as the definitive visual shorthand for American victory...
The image of a city's liberation often conjures scenes of cheering crowds, flower-strewn tanks, and a swift retreat by a defeated...
By the early weeks of 1744, the Mediterranean had become a pressure cooker of geopolitical ambition and personal loathing. The War...
The crisp scent of ink on paper met millions of Americans as they opened the February 20, 1943, issue of *The Saturday Evening Pos...
February 20, 1933, stands as the moment the United States federal government officially admitted that its fourteen-year socia...
The biting frost of February 19, 1714, clings to the pines of Isokyrö, a landscape where the breath of men and horses hangs i...
Title: On This Day: 1637 - Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant c...
The morning of February 17, 1944, broke with a deceptive stillness over the turquoise waters of Truk Lagoon. For Petty Office...
Title: On This Day: 1940 - Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HM Ge...
The scene at Bayfront Park in Miami on the evening of February 15, 1933, remains one of the most scrutinized moments in Ameri...
On February 15, 1493, while navigating the volatile waters of the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores, Christopher Columbus took u...
What People Commonly Get Wrong A persistent narrative in Eastern European historiography paints Constantin Cantemir as a blun...
At 9:40 PM on February 15, 1898, the evening silence of Havana Harbor was shattered by a massive explosion that ripped throug...
Title:** On This Day: 1848 - The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph...
On February 12, 1988, the frigid waters of the Black Sea served as the backdrop for one of the most unusual and dangerous phy...
The rapid disintegration of the Allied defensive line along the northwest coast of Singapore Island between February 8 and Fe...