There is always a love for adventure in most men and the feelings must be the highest in a land of pioneers, the United States; and this spirit will naturally find its best expression in a situation where the unknown is the highest - in the land filled with dark still sea waters. Ameri...

Cuban Missile Crisis In 1960, as tensions grew between the Soviet Union and the United States, the premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, began planning to secretly supply Cuba with nuclear missiles. Not until 1962 did the United States gain knowledge of these actions and begin to take...

Perhaps more than any other conflict in history, the First World War simultaneously shattered an old world that generations of individuals had known for centuries and at the same time ushered in a new era of a more brutal type of warfare. The generation before the First World War was the last of the...