Six Seconds of Courage: Veteran’s Film Depicts Heroics of Two Marines in Ramadi
Six seconds was enough time to run – as many people nearby did – or enough time for a Marine to choose to bravely hold ground to protect the Marines behind him
‘The Sistine Chapel of Apache religion’: Tribe Fighting to Save its Sacred Land
The Apache hope to save Oak Flat, a sacred site to the tribe, from mining operations
Floating Fire: The 1861 Barrage of Fort Sumter
A monstrous Confederate contrivance joined the April 1861 barrage of Fort Sumter
‘Fighting Joe’: Do We Owe the Moniker ‘Hookers’ to the Union General?
“Fighting Joe” really put to the test the motto “I ain't here for a long time, I'm here for a good time"
Russia Unveils New Sniper Exhibit
Never-before-seen artifacts belonging to top Soviet snipers in World War II will be showcased in a new Moscow exhibit called “Snipers of Stalingrad”
Decades-Long Mystery Surrounding Harriet Tubman’s Maryland Home Solved, Archaeologists Say
“We couldn’t understand why we weren’t finding anything. It was like, ‘Where is this place?’”
‘Our Prisoners’: A Journalist Reports on Andersonville
The atrocities, the Times said, “would make the blood of a cannibal run cold”
Two Reports Find that France Bears ‘serious and overwhelming’ Responsibility for Rwandan Genocide
Some 800,000 men, women, and children were killed in the 1994 genocide
The Yom Kippur War in Photos
An Arab attack on their holiest day was only the first surprise to befall the Israelis in 1973
The U.S. Army’s Year of ‘Grievous Blows’
Fifty years ago one of America’s most decorated generals shared his outrage with the press
How Communist Propaganda Efforts Helped this American POW in Vietnam
“I was looking for any way for my family to know I was alive," Dewey Wayne Waddell recalled
A Controversial Question: What was the communists’ objective at Khe Sanh in 1968?
Actually, North Vietnam had several motives, some rarely discussed in the literature of the war.
Saving Sammy B: A Frigate’s Heroic Legacy
"I looked aft, and everything behind the mast was just a wall of flame, towering up into the sky"
Humor Out at Sea: The Naval Tradition of Zapping
A time-honored naval tradition of wholly embarrassing a pilot while simultaneously causing significant paint damage to a plane worth millions
How Afghanistan’s ‘Rugs of War’ Helped Its Citizens Tell the Story of Conflict
Decades of armed conflict in Afghanistan have transformed the iconography of one of the country’s traditional art forms
Stolen Treasure: The Lost Amber Room of Russia
A sparkling room built for Russian royalty became a mystery after it was stolen by the Nazis during World War II
