A Korean traveler was reportedly denied entry into Vietnam for wearing a Vietnam War veteran hat. According to a post shared ...

It’s a major complaint of the authors of The Technological Republic (Crown Currency, Feb. 18) that people today shrink from saying what they think. Too many of us, they insist, give mealy-mouthed, ...

On this day in aviation history, February 20, 1939, the Douglas DC-5 made its first flight. Less remembered than its cousins, ...

The oral histories include interviews with the Marine Corps’ first brigadier general, Margaret Brewer, and the corps’ ...

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Retired Marine Gary Ladbury leads lessons on the Pledge of Allegiance and flag protocol at Liberty Camp, an annual program in North Dakota that immerses students in American history.

Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...

In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

Gabriel Seth has presided over the Chapter for more than 100 years. In his time, he has experienced many great victories but ...

Jimmy Bixby served his country as a sergeant in the US Army from 1942 to 1946. Born in Hiawassee, Georgia, he was the oldest of three siblings born to John ...