The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura ...

Representatives from the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir 55th Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit and Gettysburg National Military Park rangers last week marked possible Civil War artifacts in the field behind th ...

He posed that question to former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, who served in Iraq and had in recent years built a second career in ...

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

The Scranton chapter of UNICO National donated $350 to the GAR Memorial Association’s fundraiser to return the Civil War sword of a North Scranton (then the town of Providence) native and Civil ...

LINCOLN — It’s a raw, gray, cold morning in the tall woods of Lincoln, and the British are coming. Dozens of them, clad in ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief urged regional and international leaders Friday to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” into another civil war and speak with one ...

and hundreds of thousands were cut off from vital food and health programs as a result of a destructive four-year civil war that international groups claim has indiscriminately targeted civilians.

In the podcast, a professor at Asbury University explores the complicated history of a Confederate Civil War monument wearing a Union hat.

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...