WASHINGTON — The Fourth of July is about all things American: parades, cookouts, cold beer and of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics remain at the center of Independence Day, a holiday 247 years in ...

The Cold War nadir for America was in South Vietnam. Our ally was a nation whose own army, despite in-country American ...

A rctic cold outbreaks can seem to blend together in the pages of history. But in mid-February, 1899, 126 years ago this week, America was in the heart of what weather historian Christopher Burt ...

Scenes From an America Battered by Brutal Winter Cold An intense blast of Arctic air blanketed the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast with frigid temperatures, and a rare winter storm along the Gulf ...

A temperature map of the Pacific Ocean for December 1993 showing a cold (blue) tongue of surface water stretching westward along the equator from the coast of South America. The temperature and ...

Ronald Steel, a historian who derided America’s Cold War foreign policies as a succession of misguided adventures and wrote a definitive biography of Walter Lippmann, the dean of 20th-century ...

Arctic cold outbreaks can seem to blend together in the pages of history. But in mid-February, 1899, 126 years ago this week, America was in the heart of what weather historian Christopher Burt ...