Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Not only is June 20th the first day of summer, but it’s also the day commemorating one state’s quest for statehood.

Christened in 2011, the USNS Medgar Evers may lose its name — a move that’s drawn backlash from Evers’ family and now the ...

Ships of the line were built specifically for war and boasted heavy armor as well as overwhelming firepower, while galleons ...

Of course, President Donald Trump’s secretary of defense wants the name of Harvey Milk, the murdered gay rights pioneer, stripped from a ship.

I was given plastic figures of Civil War battles with some bridges and decimated tress, but a lot of blue and gray plastic soldiers. And my brother and I would play all the time.

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The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...