The Women’s National Basketball Association is experiencing one of the most exciting periods in its history. Attendance numbers are climbing, television audiences are growing, and new stars are capturing global...
December 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Brewster crouches behind a burning warehouse. His rifle trained on a Japanese pilot 800 yd away, strafing helpless survivors in the...
June 1944, Camp Scotsluff, Nebraska. 40 German prisoners of war sat stiffbacked at outdoor tables, their eyes scanning for the trap they knew was coming. They’d been taught Americans were...
The cold had taken stronger people than her. That was the first thing Marta understood when she stepped off the train in Rhinelander, Wisconsin in the late summer of 1887....
The storm should have killed him. That was the first thought that crossed Eric Lynfist’s mind as he staggered through the white out, clutching his 5-year-old boy against his chest....
The morning they shoved Clara Voss out of her family’s house, the cold felt sharper than it should have been for October. The thermometer nailed to the porch of the...
The cold on the Dakota plains had a way of judging people. It did not shout. It whispered. It waited. And when winter came, it revealed who was prepared and...
The settlers of the Great Plains used to whisper that the earth could keep a secret. In the winter of 1867, they learned just how true that was. Because on...
The wind in the Black Hills does not knock before it enters. It tears. It takes. And in the winter of 1888, it killed without mercy. But before that storm...
The cold claimed the day before Sarah even stepped outside. It pressed against her skin like a living thing, sharp and unforgiving. She stood on the frozen mud of Main...