Military History

Thanksgiving has never been what your fifth-grade teacher made it out to be.

Ridley Scott’s two “Gladiator” movies aren’t exactly real history, but they are based on real history.

Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps...

In addition to her work leading slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, Tubman headed reconnaissance parties and...

This Veterans Day, we’re taking a walk down memory lane, revisiting some of our most memorable episodes from among the nearly...

When John Dill died on Nov. 4, 1944, it shook the upper echelons of the United States military, right up through Army Chief...

Charles Sehe served on the USS Nevada during Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France and the 1945 invasions of...

The original Tun Tavern in Philadelphia was the birthplace of the Marine Corps and was almost as old as the city itself.

For decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a...

When the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003, journalist Suzanne Rico was at the anchor desk of KCBS in Los Angeles...