A once famous essay published in 1888 asked “Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents.” It’s time to dust it off.

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Was Brockton named for an enemy general? Yes. And no. Consider the timeline. The British commander Sir Isaac Brock took a U.S. sniper's bullet to the heart turning back a U.S. invasion of Canada ...

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T he question of how history judges prime ministers can be answered in one word: haphazardly. This is because, of course, ...

In 1944, a US Navy task group hunted a Nazi U-boat in a top-secret operation that was only made public after the war ended, marking the first time the service captured an enemy vessel since 1812.