Even aimless journeys have a purpose..

During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he d….

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I a….

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state..

The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first ….

Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unoffi….

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter..