Amelia Earhart still fascinates but she wasn’t the only female flyer
Beryl Markham and Hanna Reitsch pursued aviation with passion in the early 20th century and took the same kind of risks. But their fates were less mysterious
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Author: Pat Murphy
Meet Ireland’s new power pair
Polar opposites, Leo Varadkar and Arlene Foster together must help the Irish people navigate political and economic minefields
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‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
While it might be silly to argue the Berlin Wall came down because of Ronald Reagan, he demonstrated unusual prescience about the Soviet Union’s fragility
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The Road to Camelot offers fresh insights into JFK mythology
2017 is John F. Kennedy’s centenary year and a new book offers a deep dive into the details of his successful 1960 U.S. presidential campaign
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Two women defined by and celebrated for a single book each
Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee tackled the peculiarities and flaws of the American South of different eras but still plumbed some universal truths
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