How Red Cross Founder Clara Barton Helped Expose the Truth of a Notorious Confederate Prison Two decades before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a humanitarian without a cause.
Army Recovering Most Confederate Streamers from National Guard Units with Rebel Lineage At least 48 mostly southern National Guard units were directed in March to strip their guidons of rebel streamers to be...
A Medical Mystery Almost as Old as America: What Actually Killed George Washington? Anecdotal evidence and empirical data show that Americans are infatuated with true crime, from cold-case television shows to...
An Escaped Slave Becomes a Legendary US Marshal in 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' A new show from executive producers Taylor Sheridan (“Yellowstone”) and David Oyelowo (“Selma”) will bring Reeves' story to...
Comic Book Greats Band Together to Tell the Medal of Honor Story of Samuel Woodfill The minds and hands that bring us "Batman," "The Punisher," "X-Men" and "Iron Man" bring us the story of Samuel Woodfill's...
Not Just Silt: West Point's Time Capsule Actually Contained Some Historical Artifacts The 194-year-old West Point time capsule that was opened this week and originally believed to contain only silt produced a...
Cradle to Grave: The Only American Both Born and Buried at Arlington National Cemetery Two days after his death, James Parks was laid to rest on Aug. 23, 1929, in what is now Section 15, Grave 2 at Arlington...
West Point Opens 200-Year-Old Time Capsule and Finds … Silt? West Point had been building anticipation for nearly two weeks over the planned opening of the time capsule.
Did the US Army Actually Invent McDonald’s McRib? Did you know that the McRib’s roots might actually trace back to the U.S. Army’s efforts to feed its troops in the field?
The WWII Polish Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz Is Getting a Movie from the Producer of ‘1917’ Pilecki’s story is on the road to becoming a feature film, a joint venture between American and Polish producers.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...