Sometimes history gets revealed in small, nearly forgotten scraps. The Allied invasion of Normandy took place this week in 1944. On the evening of June 5, the largest armada in history began to churn ...

A small part of President Dwight Eisenhower's speech at the United Nations on Sept. 22, 1960, turned out to be a big idea. Eisenhower proposed the creation of a global agency to fight world hunger.

In President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous 1961 speech about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he also cautioned Americans about the growing power of a "scientific, technological elite." ...