When General Raymond E. Lee, the former U.S. military attaché in wartime London, died in 1958 at age 72, his obituary in the New York Times pointed out that no one “was ever more popular... read more
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June 05, 2019
Hitler’s litany of disastrous mistakes in 1941 made it possible for the Allies to survive his country’s initial military successes and launch an audacious operation like D-Day.... read more
December 02, 2018
Ronald Reagan is deservedly famous for the ringing challenge he delivered at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987:... read more
November 08, 2018
On the night of November 9, 1938, exactly 80 years ago, Nazi Germany put on a display of unbridled anti-Semitic violence that was... read more
September 13, 2018
The Hoover Institution has acquired an oral history collection of 130 interviews, most of them with major political and cultural figures and dissident activists from Central and Eastern Europe,... read more
September 03, 2018
On the evening of May 10, 1960, the day before the planned Israeli kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann... read more
July 31, 2018
“The first part of my life was completely ordinary for a Soviet person of my generation,” Vladimir Voinovich wrote in his... read more
May 15, 2018
Months before the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station on April 26, 1986, Viktor Briukhanov, the plant’s director, told a reporter: “Whatever you say, we are no ordinary... read more
February 24, 2018
Fictional versions of real life like ‘The Crown’ manage to be both entertaining and accurate, but too many miniseries, films, and novels play fast and loose with facts.
There’s a... read more
June 16, 2017
In the 16 years he served as Germany's Chancellor, Helmut Kohl notched historic achievements while consistently outwitting those who underestimated him.
Former... read more