Josephine Baker Was the First Black Superstar — and World War II’s Most Unlikely Spy Josephine Baker was a worldwide sensation at a time when Black performers were playing to segregated audiences in the United...
7 Celebrities You Probably Thought Received a Dishonorable Discharge But Didn't Because of their professional personalities, we might have thought them unfit for military service. We would be wrong.
That Time an Entire Battle Stopped to Watch Two Soldiers in a Fistfight A Union and Confederate soldier engaged in a fistfight during the Civil War after both found themselves in a gully during a...
5 Historical Events That Happened on Christmas Throughout most of human history, important political figures didn’t let a pesky holiday get in the way of their plans.
The Story Behind the True Events that Inspired 'Kelly's Heroes' "Kelly's Heroes" is a 1970 film about a group of ne'er-do-wells who try to get a cache of stolen Nazi gold for themselves.
Why This Singer Is the Only Woman Buried In Fort Bragg's Special Forces Cemetery Martha Raye was a singer, comedic actress and devoted supporter of U.S. troops in three wars.
Allied Navies in the Pacific Fought for a Photo of This Actress for 70 Years The "Esther Williams Trophy" could only be taken by brute force or vile cunning.
There Is a Real-Life 'Viper,' and He Made a Cameo in 'Top Gun' The only former TOPGUN instructor with a MiG kill was portrayed by Tom Skerritt in the biggest Navy movie ever.
This World War II Veteran Is Now a Children's Book Author Ninety-nine-year-old World War II veteran Sam Baker decided to reinvent himself at age 95 with a brand-new career: as a...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...