The M1 Carbine is one of the most recognizable military firearms in the world. Here's an overview of how it works, and how ...

What’s behind the media and pop culture’s longstanding fascination with Mormon violence? And how often do they get the story ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

Peter Bentzon (ca. 1783–after 1850) was not only a free man; he was also a silversmith and jeweler who worked in Philadelphia and on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. Bentzon’s work is recognized ...

In response, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz called the delay “a complete violation of the ceasefire agreement and the ...

Tibet, the CIA and the Sino-Indian War', authored by former US Central Intelligence Agency official Bruce Riedel delves into ...

The magazine has three golden rules: never write about writers, editors, or the magazine. On the occasion of our hundredth ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

Finger Lakes Community College is marking Black History Month with an online talk by Jeffrey Sammons, a professor emeritus of history at New York University. The event, scheduled for Wednesday, Feb.

Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...