War

Listen to Ben Bemus as he recommends Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie.

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends The Leopard is Loose by Stephen Harrigan.

The Battle of the Bulge had not gone well for a California kid named Ralph Ellis, who, like countless others in the fog of war, had lost track of his…

I was tired. Not sure why, but I was; and even though we'd been gone for little more than a day, I was anxious to get home. Besides, it was July-hot,…

The Exchange The Exchange 030619The retaliatory Chinese tariffs on soybeans and corn are still causing a lot of financial trouble to farmers, some of whom…

Jim Schaap shares about all black cavalry units created by Congress in 1866. These units were called Buffalo Soldiers, and their purpose was to clear…

Almost a year passed before she heard anything at all from her brother. Not that she didn't try. She did, hard and often, writing letters that would…

I was a boy in the 1950s, forty long years after November 11, 1918, Armistice Day, when the unimaginable carnage of the First World War finally ended. As…

Those in the know were not particularly surprised to see Kaitlin Bennett come on campus around graduation dolled up as she was--her mortar board darlingly…

Willa Cather’s My Antonia is 100 years old, published the same year tens of thousands of doughboys were killed in France and Belgium, thousands more dying…