‘Unknown’ but Unforgotten

December 7: “He believed that once these graves were properly marked, then the Unknowns’ former [shipmates] might visit them to lay flowers and pay their respects.”  

The Men Who United the States

Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) chronicles singular individuals (“Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks”) whose stubborn genius lashed a nascent nation together into a powerful and glorious whole.

Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A...

Death of a Dream

December 6: “I watched him plant a weeping willow in the backyard. It seemed to symbolize his sorrow for the direction our country had taken.”