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
Book Review: ‘With My Face to My Bitter Foes’
Robert Watt chronicles the struggle by Chihenne Apaches under Nana for the return of their reservation at Ojo Caliente, N.M.
‘Nuclear Folly’ Review: When the Superpowers Nearly Started World War III
A new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis distills 60 years of official and secret narratives about the world's scariest moment
Rogers’ Rangers’ Risky 1759 St. Francis Raid
In 1759 British Maj. Robert Rogers and his vaunted rangers raided deep into Abenaki territory in Quebec—but fewer than half would make it back alive
May 2021 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about Ted Williams' wartime service and the 1842 mutiny aboard USS Somers
General Isaac C.M. Bassett: The Brevet Brigadier who Rushed the Enemy
Bassett picked up the regiment’s colors and cried to his men, 'Follow me,' then rushed and planted the colors on the enemy position.
‘Daring Beyond Precedent’: One Union Officer’s Bravery at Shepherdstown
A Union officer’s heroism at Shepherdstown awed both friend and foe
Revolt of the Ionians
The Greek cities of Asia Minor tried mightily to free themselves from Persian subjugation. But their rebellion ultimately backfired
China’s War on Drugs
China warred with the British empire over the latter’s lucrative opium trade, leaving a bitter legacy
Khe Sanh Under Siege: A view from the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines
A Marine present at the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment’s combat operations center at the Khe Sanh Combat Base recalls the siege in harrowing detail
Book Review: Case White
Robert Forczyk analyzes the political, economic and military status of Poland and Germany amid the latter's invasion of the former
‘War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830–1880’ Book Review
Miguel González-Quiroga describes the interconnections that developed between southern Texas and northeastern Mexico through the mid-19th century
Picasso’s Anti-War Painting to be Exhibited in Seoul
More than a half a century later, Pablo Picasso’s anti-war painting is coming home — but it’s not Guernica
