The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is home to the USS "Cobia," a 312-foot-long vessel that completed six war patrols during World ...

Holocaust books are among those caught up in an Iowa book ban law. Meanwhile, schools are now required to teach about the ...

In a world eternally enmeshed in ‘never-ending’ wars, peace appears to be a mere interlude and war, the default condition of ...

Eleven years after the establishment of the Jamestown Colony in 1607, Virginia Gov. Sir George Yeardley was ordered by the Virginia Company of London to set aside land on the mainland — hence Governor ...

New Philadelphia's municipal airport was renamed in honor of the man who was John Glenn's first flight instructor.

Whatever ceremonial respect Jimmy Carter gets paid while he's lying in state, it's unlikely to change his historical reputation as a second-rater. The scholars who fill out the presidential rankings ...

The Ardennes Offensive, commonly known as the "Battle of the Bulge," stands as the single bloodiest battle fought by the ...

The following day, New Year’s Day 1945, Hartzell battled Nazi soldiers for control of the Belgian town of Chenogne. In the ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress made its mark on history and became among the most famous aircraft of the Second World War.

Pvt. Joe Martinez's actions came during the only World War II battle American and Japanese troops fought in the ice and snow.

By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by ...

The F-4 Phantom set a whopping sixteen world speed and altitude records between 1959 and 1962; five of those records would ...