Michael Deviney is a student at Ithaca College and a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Ronald Reagan once said, “Younger parents aren’t sure that an ambivalent ...

As young as he was, John Bush Jones remembers World War II on the home front. He was 5 at war’s end but has vivid memories of meals under rationing, bombers dropping war-bond leaflets over his Chicago ...

In “The Choral,” Ralph Fiennes plays Dr. Henry Guthrie, a talented and demanding musician hired by a small Yorkshire town’s amateur choral society when they lose their chorusmaster to World War I.

An aerial view of the massive crowds that crowded around the stage at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1969. (Marty Lederhandler/AP) (The Conversation is an independent ...

Kimo Williams and Gary Sinise performed in the Lt. Dan Band at the Fort Bragg Fairgrounds in North Carolina on Sept. 14, 2012. Classical music didn't see the same surge in new compositions responding ...

Was Robert Musil right with his sardonic quip “There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument”? Cenotaphs, triumphal arches, bronze effigies frozen in time and space: we walk right by, ...

As soon as Germany and Japan signed their own treaties of surrender in 1945 to end World War II, the term “World War III” almost immediately became pop cultural fodder. In fact, Cold War paranoia was ...