From 1776 to today, armed conflicts have been defining moments in U.S.history. Americans have fought and died for the nation and its ideals in wars that have reshaped culture and changed lives.

Reenactors and presenters brought visitors back to the early 1860s for Century Village Museum’s 41st annual Civil War Living History Weekend. Union and Confederate soldiers encamped and mingled with ...

World War II is one of the most significant events in human history. It claimed the lives of millions, devastated the economies of multiple countries, and forever changed life as we knew it. Its ...

By the side of the road in a small town in Southern Maryland is an easy-to-miss historical marker. But the story of Camp Stanton is not to be missed.

Watson Baldwin, in the middle of the clearing, gazed skyward and spread opens his arms to guide the helicopter in to receive help from above. By Daniel Johnson Published Feb 23, 2022 9:00 AM EST Add ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...

President Donald Trump recently hinted that he may revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, an old title dating back to 1789. “It used to be called the Department of War and it ...

Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History.” A ...

As President Donald Trump looks at ordering US Navy ships to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, for naval analysts and historians, there’s a distinct feeling of “been there, done that.” ...

ABOUT twenty years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes in a letter to his friend Sir Frederick Pollock had something to say about Charles A. Beard’s Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. Beard, said ...