The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military ...

From queens to activists, red lipstick has marked eras as a symbol of strength, identity, and defiance against social control ...

Photo credit: john white The Dennison Railroad Depot Museum in Dennison, Ohio, isn’t just another dusty collection of old ...

A historian will lecture on the Battle of Peleliu, where US Marines suffered their largest number of casualties in WWII.

Metal detectorists document a WWII-era US Army position where piles of 155mm ammo tube caps with readable markings, .50 caliber casings, grenade packaging materials, and communication cable reels ...

Pfc. Norton Retzsch, a Marine Raider from Cincinnati, went missing during a 1943 battle in the Solomon Islands. DPAA used his great-niece's DNA to finally bring him home.

A Council on Foreign Relations symposium on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II suggests two critical lessons for policymaking today.

He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s ...

Often overlooked by Western military historians, the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 was an early sign of the brutal urban combat ...

Historic submarines are surprisingly similar to those deployed by today's Navy and can provide an unprecedented look into modern combat at sea.

Most museums make you look at history through glass cases, but this one in Muskegon lets you crawl through it. The USS Silversides Submarine Museum offers something you won’t find in many places: the ...