It's the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and it's still not clear who fired the first shot of the ...

Adolf Hitler admitted that World War II was lost. By now, Hitler was in his infamous bunker and Soviet troops were marching ...

Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 ...

The gun from the USS Ward could be taken to the future Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum at Camp Ripley in Little Falls.

This violent act of erasure sought to both delegitimize and eradicate queer and transgender people from history itself. Milo Todd’s breathtaking debut, “The Lilac People,” unearths an essential ...

Chinese state institutions are bypassing Marxist-Leninist historiography to embrace transnational narratives of World War I ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Roman Catholic cardinals gathered Tuesday in Vatican City to prepare for the Saturday funeral of Pope Francis.

When my generation is not in this world anymore, when we disappear from the world, then the next generation can only read it ...

April 21 is an important day in history as one of the world’s oldest cities in the world, Rome, was founded. The city was ...

A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...