Robert Dallek is one of the best of the current crop of presidential historians. He’s fair-minded and a scholar, but also possesses a...

Boise State University’s aspiring football team is finding that the old truism holds regarding its national standing, as well. Boise...

Unfortunately there is a long history of humans believing they can destroy ideas by burning the books that contain those ideas. The...

There are no perfect historical parallels. Nothing is ever precisely like it was in another time. At best, history can help illuminate...

My dad loved to say that every town had a “town character,” but that in his hometown the characters had a town. If the same can be said...

I’ll be speaking on Wednesday night at the Main Boise Library on the life and career of Idaho’s longest serving U.S. Senator, William E....

David Letterman quips that Americans celebrate Labor Day by going out and buying stuff made in China. That would be funny if it weren’t...

The media’s favorite academic pundit, Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, has slightly jumped the gun on the traditional Labor...

Steve Marshburn – that’s him with his wife, son and Sage fly rod – finally got his expensive fishing gear back recently and how it...

Gen. Stanley McCrystal, the fellow Barack Obama fired earlier this year as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is lecturing at Yale...

President Obama spoke to the nation from the Oval Office this week about the end of combat operations in Iraq. His advisers said to...

Barack Obama recorded another presidential first last night. He became the only president in American history to have opposed a war and...

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower Fifty years...

A few days ago I attributed the line “you can look it up” to the Hall of Fame New York Yankee catcher, Yogi Berra. A loyal and close...

A few days ago I attributed the line “you can look it up” to the Hall of Fame New York Yankee catcher, Yogi Berra. A loyal and close...

But just as BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” brand washed away in the Gulf oil spill, so has McCain’s maverick brand forever vanished thanks to...

Whenever I think about Sweet Lou Piniella, who managed his last game Sunday, I remember reading a piece a few years back about the fact...

By now, I suspect, everyone in the country – except perhaps that escaped prisoner caught late last week in Arizona with his accomplice...

This life-long San Francisco Giants fan will never forget, nearly a decade ago, walking for the first time into the then-new Giants...

In many past elections, incumbents have often deemed it in their best interest to sit on their lead, while going into the political...