The small plane lifted off from Caldwell, New Jersey, shortly after 8:00 p. m. on July 16, 1999, with John F. Kennedy Jr. at the controls, his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette aboard. Kennedy, 38, was flying to Martha’s Vineyard to drop off Lauren before continuing to Hyannis Port for a family … Read more
A new exhibition at the Seminary Ridge Museum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is bringing the faces of those who lived and worked in the Lutheran Theological Seminary during and after the Battle of Gettysburg out of the archives and into the public eye for the first time. The exhibition, titled “Sacrifice at Seminary Ridge,” opens on … Read more
The burial detail was at work before first light, and the men carrying the bodies could not stop looking at them. They were Macedonian veterans of 200 BC, professional soldiers who believed they had seen every shape death could take. They were the heirs of Alexander, and violence was their trade. They knew its handwriting … Read more
William Holden is often described as the father of four children, but contemporary records identify only three: Virginia, the daughter he legally adopted, Peter Westfield Holden, known as West, and Scott Porter Holden. One became his daughter by choice. Two were born into his marriage with actress Brenda Marshall. All three grew up beneath one … Read more
In July 1945, the Japanese plant that had built more Zero fighters than any other in the country completed the month with just 15 aircraft. That total—not 15 per day, but 15 over 31 days—was produced by a workforce of roughly 43,000 people, a figure recorded by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey when investigators … Read more
„Entweder du zahlst die Anzahlung für meinen BMW, oder du verschwindest aus diesem Haus“, verlangte meine Tochter Melanie. Ihre Worte hallten kalt und berechnend durch den Flur. Es war Dienstagabend, und ich stand an der Haustür des Hauses, das ich, ironischerweise, selbst mit eingerichtet hatte. Melanie rechnete nicht mit einem Nein. Seit Jahren war sie … Read more
A dispute over payment for a stage station in Nebraska Territory in July 1861 ended with three men dead and sparked a controversy that has divided historians for more than a century. The central figure was James B. Hickok, the young man who would later become famous as Wild Bill. Hickok was working as an … Read more
Ich saß am Kücheninsel mit einer Tasse Kamillentee, als die E-Mail ankam. Eine Liste mit 32 Bedingungen, die ich unterschreiben sollte, wenn ich zur Hochzeit meines eigenen Sohnes gehen wollte. Mein Name ist Susanne. Ich bin 64 Jahre alt, seit acht Jahren Witwe, und jemand, der lieber still beobachtet, als laut zu streiten. Mein Sohn … Read more
Arleigh Burke spent the last week of July 1943 at anchor in Purvis Bay off Tulagi with eight destroyers and almost nothing to do. What he did with the time was talk to their captains. He had a plan he wanted them to know by heart. Destroyers would go out alone without cruisers over them, … Read more
A routine drone survey over a remote area of County Clare, on Ireland’s western Atlantic edge, has uncovered something that challenges the established timeline of Irish prehistoric archaeology. The footage came from Ciaran Doyle, a land management surveyor who was conducting an aerial drainage assessment over privately owned farmland on the Burren, the vast limestone … Read more