On Tuesday, December 16, the New York Herald printed a list of soldiers killed or wounded at Fredericksburg, including an entry for “First Lieutenant G. W. Whitmore, Company D,” of the 51st New York Infantry. It was mid-morning when poet...
In insult verse, the accuracy of the charge matters less than its confident presentation. To be assertive is to be right; to be memorable is to win.
How one disaster at Katyn helped us move past another
Just outside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, a generation of children has grown up wondering about the future.
How My Love of Belarusian Tractors Got Me Arrested by the KGB
A generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea. Can a new dam reclaim it?
One Afghan Refugee’s Quest to Recover the Past.
