Last month, November 22 was the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This year’s thermonuclear dry run —dubbed Steadfas…
On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, in…
On Aug. 30, 1916, on his fourth attempt, explorer Ernest Shackelton successfully returned to Elephant Island in Antarctica to rescue 22 of his…
Those who study history regularly ask the question — what if? What if certain watershed events in American history had never occurred or had o…
Tom Blair, a former Eastern Shore resident who shared imaginative and amusing displays on his estate on St. Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Road between Easton and S…
NASA’s Artemis program is edging toward a return to the moon — this time to stay — with its successful launch this week of an uncrewed rocket.…
MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, t…
WASHINGTON — It might discomfit the president and secretary of state to be told that their excellent first steps in foreign policy are reminis…
LONDON (AP) — John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brough…
