The Veterans Day holiday began more than a century ago, albeit under a different name, as a celebration of the end of World ...

A tender yearning permeates the traveling career survey of Bronx-born Whitfield Lovell, who forges Black histories from aged ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Boasting a 51-year career, the USS Missouri initially launched from the Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn in ...

Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies, and vivandières all had their parts to play. Before the war ended, many soldiers also became prisoners of war. Drums and shrill fifes ...

Memorial Day got its start after the Civil War, with the first national observance of what was then called Decoration Day on May 30, 1868. An organization of Union Army veterans called for ...

The California Insurance Department said four Los Angeles residents were arrested Wednesday, accused of defrauding three insurance companies out of nearly $142,000 by claiming a bear had caused damage ...

Women led the country’s revolution in 2019 and have been central to peace efforts. Now rape, sexual slavery and murder have ...

Preparing for the SC250, an archeological dig looks for evidence of a British encampment near the childhood home of South ...

From pirates to first flight, Coastal North Carolina can be called "the most historical place in the United States of America ...

Retired Army Col. Kevin Weddle, a historian and author, received the Friends of the New York State Military Museum’s inaugural Preserving Our Military Heritage Award during a ceremony at the museum at ...

People are calling 'Oh, Mary!' the funniest 80 minutes on Broadway. Here's a quick look at why audiences are laughing so much.

“Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War,” the latest contribution from Civil War and Abraham Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo, is filled with ...