How Female Service Members Paved the Way for the Modern Women’s Rights Movement The contributions that servicewomen have made to the broader fight for women’s equality in the workplace has largely been...
Vincent Astor, Gentleman Spy William Vincent Astor's life was one of unenviable isolation and singularly strange circumstances.
Thieves Are Stripping Sunken World War II Shipwrecks of Their Valuable Steel In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The...
Harvey Keitel Stars in a New Adaptation of the Best-Selling Book 'Tattooist of Auschwitz' An upcoming television adaptation might help make up for what the source material lacked when "The Tattooist of Auschwitz"...
VA Secretary Intervenes After Top Officer Orders Iconic World War II Kiss Photo Removed for Being 'Non-Consensual' The VA's head health operations officer sent a memo to regional health directors in February saying the photo depicted non...
Operation Gunnerside: The Daring Norwegian Commando Raid that Ended Nazi Atomic Dreams Without Firing a Shot Neither the United States nor Germany would end up completing an atomic bomb while the war in Europe raged, but the Allies...
7 Important Things to Know About the First US Navy Seabees The Seabees were created during World War II, because the Navy needed construction workers who could fight back.
6 Events in Military History That Happened on Leap Day Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day.
The Story Behind the Two Flag Raisings at the Battle of Iwo Jima Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal spent his life proving his now-famous photo wasn't staged.
This Czech Knight Resisted Nazi Aggression When the World Abandoned His Country Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also...
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...