Dick Van Dyke's Entertainment Career Started in a World War II Latrine Van Dyke has never been ashamed to admit that cowardice led to his entertainment career.
6 Things You May Not Know About the End of the Civil War To celebrate the end of a conflict that killed more than 600,000 troops, let's remember just how the war finally ended.
How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War The Confederate army under Joseph E. Johnston was the largest army to surrender to the Union during the Civil War.
'A Republic of Scoundrels' Shows Readers Not All Founding Fathers Were Worthy of Praise Most of the Founding Fathers risked their lives fighting the British, worked tirelessly to unite the colonies or made...
From Building Buicks to Bombers During WWII As the U.S. geared up for war and ordered an auto manufacturing slowdown, GM had to reinvent itself.
A New Book Details the Life of the Deadliest Sniper in Marine Corps History Chuck Mawhinney's closest friends had no idea the Marine Corps veteran was a Vietnam War legend who holds the record for the...
There's a Good Reason Why 'Oppenheimer' Is Christopher Nolan's Longest Movie Ever "Oppenheimer" is Nolan's autobiographical adaptation of authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's 2005 book "American...
Why the First Nuclear Sub Had to Stop for Auto Parts Before a Secret Mission Normally, crossing an ocean wouldn't be a problem for any ship or submarine, but the Arctic Ocean was covered in vast, dense...
'Ducks' Weren't Built for Tourists. They Played a Crucial Role in WWII. You've probably seen them hauling tourists around the streets of America's biggest cities, but the wartime history of the...
A Soviet Spy Saved Stalin, Churchill and FDR from a Nazi Assassination Plot Gevork Vartanian was the Soviet intelligence officer from Armenia who discovered the Nazis' plan to kill the Allied...
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...