In a new book 'Presidents At War,' historian Steven M. Gillon takes a look at how World War II impacted a generation of ...

President Eisenhower and the Cold War and Civil Rights. Dwight D. Eisenhower is a fixture in the lists of America's favourite Presidents. How did Eisenhower change America? How did the Cold War and ...

Eisenhower knew full well that the amphibious invasion would most likely result in a staggering number of Allied deaths, even if it succeeded. And if it failed? The tide of the war and the fate of ...

President Eisenhower and Nikita Krushchev. Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As the dust settled after the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as competing ...

But more often than not, the restraint and moderation he exercised was a fitting antidote to the dangerous rhetoric of those early Cold War days. Eisenhower promoted a stable economy and fought to ...

The post-war years of 1950s America are typically described ... Like most Americans of the day, Dwight Eisenhower had moved through his life in a largely segregated society. The Abilene of his ...