Of all the U.S. military arms of the mid-19th century, one of the most interesting, effective and well-built was the Model 1841 rifle, often called simply the "Mississippi rifle." ...

A plurality of Americans who responded to the Economist/YouGov survey said the country is more politically unstable now than during the Great Depression or the Civil War, the poll found.

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

He leads the majors in nearly every meaningful category—hits (50), runs (26), RBIs (32), total bases (86)—and he’s pacing the field in WAR at 2.7. This isn’t just a hot start. It’s the ...

China, the US and the rest of the international community have expressed hopes that tensions between the nuclear-armed adversaries will not escalate into a full-blown war. Still, many observers ...

Erdogan Backs Pakistan Against India, Says Turkey Will Stand By 'brother' Despite Cost Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reaffirmed full support for Pakistan, calling it a “brother ...

50 years after the fall of Saigon, a Vietnamese father sits down for a conversation with his America-born daughter to share their family history.May 1, 2025 Fear: Dreamers travel to Mexico to stay ...

QUANG TRI PROVINCE, Vietnam — The Vietnamese deminers who find and destroy the deadly remnants of America’s war here were on break for Lunar New Year when they received word an executive order ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe ...

For them, the conflict was “the Civil War” (Nội Chiến), fought between communists and anti-communists over the future of Vietnam. After the Republic fell, many grieved (and still do ...

"Yeah, that's possible. Sure. He could be tapping me along a little bit. I would say that he would like to stop the war. I think that--" "You believe that?" Moran jumped in. "If -- if it weren't ...

Even when they’re working as designed, loading a musket is a slow and complicated process. Bohy demonstrated all the steps in a new PBS NOVA documentary called “Revolutionary War Weapons,” starting ...