History (Page 6)

Military history: Battles, campaigns, turning points, and the stories of those who served across every era.

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When the Army barred men from serving as nurses, they fought back and won

By Joanna Guldin

Revolutionary War

Baron von Steuben and the birth of US Army discipline

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Teddy Roosevelt is the reason for military PT tests

By Blake Stilwell

A World War II POW who defied Nazis to protect Jewish soldiers will receive the Medal of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Benedict Arnold and the most famous betrayal in American history

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Captain America and the boldest punch in American pop culture

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Curtis LeMay: World War II bomber, cold warrior, and judo champion

By Blake Stilwell

7 interesting facts about US presidents and their military service

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War uniforms and the birth of an American army

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The mathematician who saved hundreds of flight crews during World War II

President Lincoln personally led a recon mission during the Civil War

By Daniel Tobias Flint

What the Soviet Union thought as it watched Operation Desert Storm

By Blake Stilwell

How a single Viking’s berserker rage changed world history forever

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Marquis de Lafayette: Washington’s indispensable French commander

By Daniel Tobias Flint

This Marine Corps veteran codified the modern handgun shooting technique

By Miguel Ortiz

‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ and America’s obsession with the Atomic Age

By Daniel Tobias Flint

These specialized soldiers train to neutralize enemy nuclear weapons

By Blake Stilwell

He fought seven MiGs and kept it secret—70 years later, he’s getting the Medal of Honor

By Miguel Ortiz

‘Project Jedi’ aimed to teach soldiers to use the Force when firing weapons

By Bethaney Phillips

The Marine Corps used ‘Doom II’ to train Marines to work together

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

The original US Navy was an armada of American rebels and privateers

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Flintlock to firepower: The grunt’s 250-year quest for a weapon that actually works

By Adam Gramegna

Revolutionary War

How Henry Knox became the artillery genius of the Revolutionary War

By Daniel Tobias Flint

These are the Navy’s rules for being buried at sea

By Blake Stilwell

Soldier killed protecting a Polish officer in Afghanistan will receive Medal of Honor

By Gina Napoletano

How a Frenchman made a World War I artillery shell disappear

By Adam Gramegna

This was the only mutiny on an American ship in the past 100 years

By Blake Stilwell

Veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness won a 30-year war for recognition

By Adam Gramegna

12 strange and surprising facts about the Civil War

By Blake Stilwell

How a Marine NCO was crowned king of a voodoo island in Haiti

By Blake Stilwell

Russia’s only aircraft carrier was a floating hell for the crew

By Blake Stilwell

This Medal of Honor recipient came up with the idea for the Super Bowl

By Stephen Ruiz

The John Frum Movement and World War II ‘cargo cults’

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How the Navy once mistook Venus for a Japanese war balloon

By Bethaney Phillips

Revolutionary War

The Revolutionary War battle that forced Americans to choose sides

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Your battle buddy was originally supposed to check your feet in the trenches of World War I

By Blake Stilwell

16 excerpts from the greatest military speeches ever given

These crusader knights answered the call to fight World War I

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Nathanael Greene: The Revolutionary War’s most underrated leader

By Daniel Tobias Flint

That time an entire battle stopped to watch two soldiers in a fistfight

By Blake Stilwell

What happened after the TSA confiscated a World War II hero’s Medal of Honor

By Daniel Tobias Flint

These Air Force ‘Rods from God’ could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon

By Blake Stilwell

This E-4’s grave is the most dangerous gravesite in the world

By Blake Stilwell

World War II alliances fueled the resurgence of the post-war American mafia

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

How a plain-language pamphlet created America’s revolutionary mindset

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

The Raid on Richmond was Benedict Arnold’s best battle as a British general

By Blake Stilwell

The reason Gen. George Patton is buried in Luxembourg

By Miguel Ortiz

This Olympian served under a Medal of Honor recipient during World War II

By Stephen Ruiz

The controversial Marine grenade hero of Fallujah that Washington still argues about

By Stephen Ruiz

Special Forces fought North Vietnamese tanks for the first time at Lang Vei

By Friedrich Seiltgen

After more than 100 years, World War I battlefields are uninhabitable

By James Elphick

Here’s what communication back home looked like during World War II

By Bethaney Phillips

Snoopy was much more than just a World War I flying ace

By Bethaney Phillips

What Operation Absolute Resolve teaches students about America’s past and present

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Two veterans shaped the UFO phenomenon from a joke into real federal policy

By Daniel Tobias Flint

7 unbelievable secret spy weapons of the Cold War

Amos Chapple, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Here’s how the Medal of Honor, the military’s highest award, is made

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Why commercial airlines ordered and issued their own weapons

By Miguel Ortiz

This former Navy pilot became one of the unlikeliest Super Bowl champions ever

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

Daniel Morgan’s Revolutionary War riflemen were America’s original scout snipers

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The friendly rivalry between ‘Hollywood Marines’ and Parris Island Marines

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The Vietnam tank driver who ran into a burning tank to pull his friends out

By Stephen Ruiz

5 terrifying things US troops faced in Vietnam’s jungles

By Blake Stilwell

How a drunken major general almost ruined the surprise of D-Day

By Daniel Tobias Flint