On The Clock: Daylight Saving Time Has Roots in World War I DST continues to spark debate as Americans remain divided over whether to keep changing their clocks each year.
WWI Pilot Took on Nine Germans to Save His Wingman. His Lost Medal of Honor Still Awaits Justice On Nov. 6, 1918, William Vail engaged nine German fighters alone and saved the life of a fellow aviator. He shot down one...
How Soldiers at Fort Riley Helped Spread the Spanish Flu Pandemic During WWI A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S...
How a Wounded Pigeon Named Cher Ami Saved the Lost Battalion in WWI A wounded pigeon named Cher Ami helped save a battalion of American soldiers, becoming one of the most recognized animals in...
'Stories To Be Told': World War II Backdrop For New High School Program “They get to understand the different aspects of history and why we have the freedoms that we have today," a program head...
The Forgotten Army Soldiers That Fought Alongside the Marines at Belleau Wood Belleau Wood is where the Marine Corps became the legend we know of today. It's the battle that gave birth to the term "Devil...
America's Forgotten Doughboys: The 332nd Infantry Destroyed an Empire While millions of Americans can name Western Front battles like Belleau Wood or the Meuse-Argonne, almost no one remembers...
The Battle of Hamel: Australian Soldiers Taught American Doughboys to Fight Germans in WWI For the first time in American history, U.S. soldiers would fight under a foreign command. In 93 minutes, they would help win...
German Spies Detonated 2 Million Pounds of Explosives in New York Harbor in 1916: The Statue of Liberty's Torch Has Been Closed Ever Since Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New...
A Rose for the Doughboys: Melissa Errico Brings World War I to New York World War I rarely gets center stage, but for one night in January, it takes over New York. In The Story of a Rose, Tony...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
From Iraq to Iran: How Congress Handed Over War Powers to the Presidency The 9/11 attacks were a sea change in U.S. foreign policy and diminished congressional authority, with partisanship on...
Left Face Down in the Mud: How an Air Force Veteran, Amputee Found Hope A life-changing injury and having to raise three kids alone made Jason Morgan more resolute in the long run.
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
SNL Mocks Iran Conflict as Pete Hegseth Calls It a ‘Situationship’ “This isn’t a war, it’s a situationship.” SNL skewers tensions with Iran in a wild press briefing sketch starring Colin Jost...
