<em>Editor’s note: This is the final column from Bruce Kauffmann, who died July 18.</em>Even before he took power in Germany in 1934, Adolf Hitler planned to rid Germany of its Jewish population, although his original goal was the deportation of all Jews. As part ...
This week (Aug. 24) in 1814, several thousand British soldiers entered Washington, D.C., set fire to the Capitol, the Navy Yard, the Treasury Building and, finally, the building that we now call the White House. It was the ultimate indignity in a war – the War of 1812 – abundant with ...
This week (Aug. 17) in 1956, former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, who had lost the 1952 presidential election to Republican Dwight Eisenhower in a landslide (442 Electoral College votes to 89), was once again the Democratic Party’s choice to challenge Eisenhower in the upcoming ...