American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.

This practice of mind control is inflicted on French and then later on American POWs. July 8 ... crime is to live in a country ripped by civil war." The increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

The Santa Cruz Valley Historical Society recently unveiled a new historical marker commemorating Camp Continental, a German ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...