Military History

Doubleday's name resonates today widely as the supposed inventor of baseball. While that contention has been largely debunked...

The anniversary of all-volunteer forces comes amid the toughest military recruiting environment in decades.

Morse code, the language of the telegraph, is a system of communication that's composed of combinations of short and long...

Historically, the Corps has been very proud of those who held its top post. Except for that one commandant.

In the late 1850s, the U.S. Army experimented with using camels as pack animals in the American Southwest.

The 101st Airborne Division has probably one of the most recognizable insignias in the U.S. military.

A new children's book, "We Also Served: True Stories of Brave Animals in the Military and Other Heroic Tales," recounts the...

Van Dyke has never been ashamed to admit that cowardice led to his entertainment career.

To celebrate the end of a conflict that killed more than 600,000 troops, let's remember just how the war finally ended.

The Confederate army under Joseph E. Johnston was the largest army to surrender to the Union during the Civil War.