Why American Currency Can Only Feature Images of Dead People Spencer Clark is probably the most obscure American ever to appear on U.S. banknotes, and there are a surprising number of...
How an All-Black Regiment Pulled Off an Amazing Rescue After the Battle Depicted in 'Glory' As great as the 1989 film "Glory" was, the movie stops short of what might be the 54th's finest hour.
How Red Cross Founder Clara Barton Helped Expose the Truth of a Notorious Confederate Prison Two decades before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a humanitarian without a cause.
An Escaped Slave Becomes a Legendary US Marshal in 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' A new show from executive producers Taylor Sheridan (“Yellowstone”) and David Oyelowo (“Selma”) will bring Reeves' story to...
Cradle to Grave: The Only American Both Born and Buried at Arlington National Cemetery Two days after his death, James Parks was laid to rest on Aug. 23, 1929, in what is now Section 15, Grave 2 at Arlington...
Ten-Hut Time Machine? West Point to Open Time Capsule Possibly Left by Cadets in the 1820s The box will be opened during a livestreamed event.
Arlington National Cemetery Wants to Know What You Think About Removing Its Confederate Memorial The cemetery is inviting the public to provide feedback on "alternatives that will avoid, minimize or mitigate adverse...
The Civil War Veteran Who Lied About His Age to Fight in World War I John W. Boucher was a Canadian veteran of the U.S. Civil War who finagled his way onto the battlefields of World War I.
'His Best Day During the Civil War': How Abner Doubleday Helped the Union Win at Gettysburg Doubleday's name resonates today widely as the supposed inventor of baseball. While that contention has been largely debunked...
Rebels at Vicksburg Vowed Revenge Against the Yankee Who Killed Their Camel In the late 1850s, the U.S. Army experimented with using camels as pack animals in the American Southwest.
Biggest Military Pay Raise in 2 Decades Finalized in Newly Released Defense Bill Service members will get a 5.2% pay raise come January under the compromise annual defense bill unveiled Wednesday night.
Army Veteran Battling Terminal Cancer Gets His Wish to Shoot a Tank One Last Time In early 2022, Jay Tenison was diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer after reporting pain to his doctors. After months of...
Congress Tells Army to Set Higher Fitness Standards for Combat Arms Soldiers Congress is set to direct the Army to boost fitness standards for most combat-arms jobs through a compromise defense policy...
American Forces Must Strike Iran to Protect US Troops "The disproportionate scale of Iranian attacks to American responses lays bare that Iran, not the U.S., holds deterrence in...
US Military Grounds Entire Fleet of Osprey Aircraft Following a Deadly Crash off the Coast of Japan The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps took the extraordinary step of grounding hundreds of aircraft after a preliminary...