Historians ignore the role of weapons when studying war, leading to misconceptions, Paul Lockhart, a professor of history at Wright State University, said in a lecture sponsored by the Center for ...

Military forces have participated in Inauguration Day since 1789, when local militias and veterans escorted George Washington to his first inauguration.

The New Yorker "Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns, Germs and Steel] must be added to their select ...