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The USS Carl Vinson Strike Group transits through the western Pacific Ocean on May 3, 2017.

What We Can All Learn About Character From Great Admirals in History

In Sailing True North: Lessons of Character from Ten Admirals I examine the...

In Sailing True North: Lessons of Character from Ten Admirals I examine the lives of ten admirals whose careers stretch across 2,500 years of history and try to illuminate the most essential qualities of character...

Painting by Frederic Schopin (1804-1880) depicting the First Crusade — Battle delivered under the walls of Antioch between the crusaders led by Bohemond and the army of Karbouka, general of the Sultan of Persia, June 1098

What the Far Right Gets Wrong About the Crusades

In January this year, at a courthouse in Wichita, Kansas, three members of ...

In January this year, at a courthouse in Wichita, Kansas, three members of a right-wing militia group were sentenced to a combined total of 81 years in jail for plotting the mass murder of Muslims...

Vivarais-Lignon, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in France in Feb. 2016.

What We Can Learn About Being Good From a Village That Saved Thousands During the Holocaust

Several years ago, I went off to research a remarkable community that has a...

Several years ago, I went off to research a remarkable community that has a history of sheltering vulnerable outsiders. I went looking for clues to how a community like that operates. I hoped I could...

Jessica Lenahan, center, a domestic violence survivor, and Carol Jenkins, right, of the Equal Rights Amendment Task Force, attend a news conference at the House Triangle on the need to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment on June 6, 2018.

The U.S. Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Equal Rights for Women. Here’s Why

The Equal Rights Amendment has a long history in U.S. Congress. So why did ...

The Equal Rights Amendment has a long history in U.S. Congress. So why did the proposed amendment never get ratified?

The Enola Gay was the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb

What Happened to the Enola Gay After It Dropped the Atomic Bomb

The B-29 bomber now lives at the National Air and Space Museum

Relatives and friends wave goodbye to a train carrying 1,500 people being expelled from Los Angeles back to Mexico on Aug. 20, 1931.

Citizens Facing Deportation Isn't New. Here's What Happened When the U.S. Removed Mexican-Americans in the 1930s

California officially apologized for the program in 2005

Snow-covered personal effects of those deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland litter the train tracks leading to the camp's entrance, circa 1945.

The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Volunteered to Enter Auschwitz and Try to Tell the World About It

In the darkest years of the Second World War, Witold Pilecki, a Polish cava...

In the darkest years of the Second World War, Witold Pilecki, a Polish cavalry officer turned resistance fighter, undertook the most audacious of missions: to get himself arrested by the Germans and sent to the...

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What We Can All Learn About Character From Great Admirals in History

What the Far Right Gets Wrong About the Crusades

What We Can Learn About Being Good From a Village That Saved Thousands During the Holocaust

The U.S. Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Equal Rights for Women. Here’s Why

What Happened to the Enola Gay After It Dropped the Atomic Bomb

Citizens Facing Deportation Isn't New. Here's What Happened When the U.S. Removed Mexican-Americans in the 1930s

The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Volunteered to Enter Auschwitz and Try to Tell the World About It

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