Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Unlike the efforts made to raise awareness of Black history in the United States, acknowledging the presence of Black people ...

April 1843: a small flotilla of ships are cruising along the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, which has seceded from Mexico.

Beneath cotton-white clouds, shouts of delight rang out as Carl Berghofer rode his all-terrain vehicle down the hill of his ...

BCCI's invitation to India's service chiefs at Ahmedabad stadium is latest chapter in sport's complex relationship with ...

The little known chapter in the aircraft carrier’s history is the subject of a new book, “The Sailing of the Intrepid.” ...

Memorial Day, originally Decoration Day, was established in 1868 to honor fallen soldiers. Discover how communities across ...

Shuttered military museum plans to move collection to NC after not finding another home. It hopes to leave legacy of Citadel ...

A tiny coterie of authors have produced more than one standard book on Texas history. Stephen L. Hardin is among them. In 1989, Hardin wrote "Texian Iliad: A Military History ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

A pack of veterinarians clambered over hefty metal crates on Tuesday morning, loading them one by one onto a fleet of ...