The U.S.-Iran crisis has thrust foreign policy and national security—rarely decisive factors in elections—into the spotlight and, likely, onto the Democratic debate stage.
At 10 o’clock on the morning of June 4, 1942, the Japanese were winning the Pacific War; an hour later, three Japanese aircraft carriers were on fire and sinking.
On May 9, 1926, Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd and Chief Aviation Pilot Floyd Bennett won the race to fly over the North Pole, a daring expedition that earned them rare peacetime Medals of Honor.
There aren’t a lot of black college presidents in the U.S. Possibly even rarer? Veterans who have climbed to the highest ranks of academia. Miles Davis is both.