Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.
