Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

We kayak the Flint River to Owens Island, where a Civil War skirmish took place in 1865 near the old Double Bridges crossing ...

Guy Gugliotta, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025. 296 pp.

For the Union Army during the American Civil War, its officers and cavalry troopers relied on one of Colt's most notable ...

Theodore Roosevelt was a complex figure—a progressive who abhorred radicalism, a conservationist who loved hunting.

After 164 years of dedicated service, the U.S. Army’s venerable 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment (6/6 Cav), the "Fighting Sixth," ...

The partially completed Catholic Church, poised as the fort to be used in defense of the futilely attempted Confederate ...

On Christmas day 1863, as his son recovered from his wounds, Henry penned the poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," with ...

The U.S. launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in retaliation for an attack on two Iowa National Guard soldiers, ...

The United States has carried out a large-scale military operation in Syria in direct retaliation for the killing of two ...

United States President Barack Obama announced an end to the Iraq War. This effectively brought an end to nine years of American troops being deployed in West Asia. Gone with the Wind, one of the ...

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...