Explore the often-overlooked contributions of South Africa during World War I, from the sacrifices of soldiers to the efforts ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

Sometimes history lies hidden just around the corner. Just south of Washington, D.C., is a graveyard with more than 100 wooden ships that date to World War I — the Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay.

It is often said that history is more than just words on the written page. For various reasons, many parts of our past have become lost or confused over time and World War I was no different. In ...

Milk was a slain gay rights activist who served during the Korean War. Secretary Pete Hegseth's announcement comes during Pride Month — the same timing as the Pentagon’s campaign to force ...

Defense Secretary Hegseth announces Navy oil tanker renaming from gay rights leader Harvey Milk to Medal of Honor recipient Oscar V. Peterson to take "politics out of ship naming." ...

As Carrie Chapman Catt, the group’s president, wrote in a letter to several of the WOH doctors that spring: “We have staked our reputation on the maintenance of a hospital unit which will win laurels ...

The ship’s new namesake won the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Second World War, as he helped save the USS Neosho at the cost of his own life.

A vacant hospital in northeast Detroit appears to have sold at auction for $1.25 million on Thursday, June 26.