The era of the penny is nearing its end: starting early next year, the Treasury Department announced that it will end the ...

1792: Kentucky is admitted as 15th US state. 1796: The last British troops withdraw from the US. On the same day, Tennessee is admitted as the 16th US state. 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte swears fidelity ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

In every battle fought since the United States’ founding, U.S. Army troops have relied on their issue longarms, from muskets ...

Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

Each week we pay tribute to the loved ones remembered in our area with a funeral notice and online tribute page. To read the ...

After the deployment of the British Army to Northern Ireland following the outbreak of serious violence in Derry and elsewhere, the Irish Defence Forces security and intelligence branch G2 ...

This brief historical sketch brings us to how the American and Israeli militaries of today have adopted a ...

But retired Army Lt. Col. Mark Calhoun, a senior historian at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, does not buy Eisenhower's explanation, reasoning that it took more than one day to load the ...