History (Page 7)

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

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This Chinese province may be filled with the descendants of a lost Roman legion

By Blake Stilwell

How FDR’s custom cars fueled his fight for independence

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Naval Combat Demolition Units and the sailors who made D-Day possible

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Japan’s invasion of Alaska and the only World War II land campaign on American soil

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How to get a name rubbing from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

By Gina Napoletano

Military history’s 4 wildest drunken benders led by senior officers

By Randall Stevens

Herbert Hoover embraced ‘Hooverball’ to stay fit amid economic turmoil

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Why cats were the perfect companions in the trenches of World War I

By Eric Milzarski

This Civil War veteran nearly died while exploring the Arctic

By Stephen Ruiz

Aldrich Ames, the Cold War’s deadliest CIA mole, completes life sentence

By Blake Stilwell

How female spies changed the course of the Civil War

By Bethaney Phillips

The Dutch wait years to adopt World War II graves in Netherlands American Cemetery

By Blake Stilwell

This colonel-turned-mercenary held off a rebel army in his own Hind gunship

By James Elphick

The third Delta Force sniper you didn’t see in ‘Black Hawk Down’

By Miguel Ortiz

5 general officers who were almost certainly crazy

The only time a Medal of Honor recipient killed another Medal of Honor recipient

By Blake Stilwell

The American mafia teamed up with the Navy to get even with Mussolini

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Depression-era hobo signs were America’s first secret survival codes

By Daniel Tobias Flint

A junior enlisted Marine once eloped with Bahrain’s Princess

By Blake Stilwell

The Black Seminole Scouts’ ‘Unconquered Four’ Medal of Honor recipients

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Italian women quietly enabled a new front for the Allies in World War II

By Gina Napoletano

The Mk-19 grenade launcher and how it helped shape the War on Terror

By Adam Gramegna

The 1952 UFO Washington sighting that upended decades of denial

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The heroism and legacy of US military chaplains in combat

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How a B-29 bomber crew accidentally created an Air Force holiday

By Adam Gramegna

NASA’s ‘Flying Bathtub’ taught the Space Shuttle how to land

By Friedrich Seiltgen

The real-life military experiment that inspired ‘Stranger Things’

By Sarah Sicard

The bittersweet story behind the Christmas Truce of 1914

By Brittany Sulc

America’s first all-Black paratrooper unit protected American civilians during World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

A US Marine went to Somalia and became a warlord

By Blake Stilwell

The circus song was supposed to be a badass military marching theme

By Blake Stilwell

How Mafia boss Lucky Luciano joined World War II from his prison cell

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Afghanistan War

4 Royal Marines strapped themselves to attack helicopters and rode into a Taliban compound

‘MAS*H’ made television history while keeping Korean War history alive

By Daniel Tobias Flint

6 military spouses who grabbed a weapon and joined the fight

By Gina Napoletano

When Patton met MacArthur in the mud of St. Mihiel

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The Indian Scouts that forged the legacy of American Special Forces

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The 8 reincarnations of General George S. Patton

By Blake Stilwell

A brief history of animals in the US military

By Daniel Tobias Flint

3 Stories from the Battle of the Bulge you won’t see in ‘Band of Brothers’

By Adam Gramegna

George Washington’s eggnog recipe will destroy you

By Blake Stilwell

FDR dressed up as Julius Caesar for a White House toga party

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Nazi sabotage teams were captured infiltrating the US during World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The college football team who became first responders at Pearl Harbor

By Miguel Ortiz

The Black Seminoles’ culture and legacy of resistance and strength

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How AC/DC helped save a POW in Mogadishu

By Blake Stilwell

Air Commandos and the evolution of the ultimate gunship

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Operation Restore Hope was much bigger than ‘Black Hawk Down’

By Daniel Tobias Flint

These pilots fought back during the attack on Pearl Harbor

By Miguel Ortiz

Why the lessons from the attack on Pearl Harbor still matter today

By Clay Beyersdorfer

How shoddy email practices led to the convictions in the Iran-Contra Affair

The forgotten Marine Corps veteran who exposed the Iran-Contra Affair dies at 84

By Blake Stilwell

‘Operation Underworld’ was a secret wartime pact no one saw coming

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The ‘One Man Air Force’ took on dozens of enemy fighters even after his guns ran dry

By Friedrich Seiltgen

How US troops quietly crushed Russian mercenaries in Syria

By Adam Gramegna

‘Ramage’s Rampage’ saw a World War II sub sink 5 ships in 40 minutes

The Seminole War that America forgot to call a slave rebellion

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The US plan to nuke its interstate highways into existence

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Thanksgiving in wartime meant rationing, sacrifice, and resilient American meals

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Honoring 250 years of the Marine Corps and the enduring legacy of Native American warriors

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The Seminole Wars: Florida’s longest conflicts

By Daniel Tobias Flint

9 foods you didn’t know came from wartime rationing

By Bethaney Phillips

Why JFK’s first casket was buried at the bottom of the ocean

By Blake Stilwell

How the US military accidentally created modern Thanksgiving

By Clay Beyersdorfer