We often speak of America as “unknown,” except to its own inhabitants, in the Middle Ages. But so, in a sense, was Europe, which hardly figured on the...

Imagine the setting. Since soon after the close of World War II, the United States had been engaged in a heated Cold War with the Communist Soviet Union. Within the previous four years, Soviet tanks and troops had crushed a democratic revolt in Hungary and threatened...

During the mid-nineteenth century, American...

World War II had a profound impact on the United States. Although no battles occurred on the American mainland, the war affected all phases of American life. It required...